Google Chrome OS

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    goindownslow

    Sun Sep 27 2009

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    jedi58

    Wed Jul 08 2009

    Long before the browser Google Chrome was released there were many people that speculated about Google releasing their own operating system. There was even a number of screenshots that claimed to be of this mythical creation. Now it's happened, Google have announced their operating system will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010. They've also stated that they're working with OEM's to release a number of netbooks next year and that the OS will run on the x86 architecture and on ARM. I'm quite surprised they haven't skipped past x86 and gone straight to 64-bit. From the sounds of it Google Chrome is becoming like IE in that it will become the windowing system and the applications will be web applications (meaning they'll run on Windows, etc. as well). Hopefully they won't have any anti-trust issues rise from this just as Microsoft had. It does sound fairly innovative, but I wonder how they'll fair against the giants - Windows, OS X, Ubuntu (and the other distros such ... Read more

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    lena7358

    Wed Jul 08 2009

    Microsoft is undoubtedly reeling with the announcement of Google Chrome OS, and Apple should be concerned, too. If the Google Chrome OS is as promised, it has the potential to get me, a diehard Apple OSX user, to pick up a netbook That's a slippery slope towards OS agnosticism which causes more problems for Apple than MS since they rely upon the love of their OS for hardware purchases. Although, personally I'd never get away with using a Web-focused OS on my primary machine because of the types of applications I use to do my job, I can certainly manage with WebApps and GoogleDocs for 90% of what I do on a computer in my spare time. As WebApps improve and proliferate, and wifi and 3g for notebooks becomes increasingly prevalent, I think less and less people will truly need anything more than a WebOS on a day to day basis. Google tends to over-deliver and I'm pretty much sold, sight unseen. I also think this OS will tie in nicely with the recently announced Google Wave, which should... Read more