There was a lot of excitement when Google announced it’s intent to develop the Chrome operating system (Chrome OS). Almost immediately journalists, analysts, and bloggers began speculating if Google’s future OS offering could pose a threat to Microsoft’s dominance on the desktop. VMware quickly added clout to Google’s plans by promising to support Google OS. VMware also expressed interest in the Chrome OS being used to develop specialized applications as virtual appliances.
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Efficiency has reached some sort of peak, and tiny GUI-based alterations to the user-end experience are now essential to winning over consumers. Enter Google Chrome OS.
According to Google: “Speed, simplicity and security are the key aspects of Google Chrome OS.” Well that’s something new. Up until now, a fancy-looking GUI-based experience has been the means to any alleged speed, simplicity and security offered by Microsoft or Apple.
embracetheflux blog article
People are trying to create Buzz but actually they just unnecessarily hype up things.
Google Chrome OS, this ones much related to Google. People claimed Chrome OS to be Microsofts Competitor, but the product is about a year away from its launch. Now how can you possibly state something as Microsoft’s Competitor when you even don’t know how it is like, especially when it’s 1 year away from public release? Funny isn’t it?
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or new we can only speculate on how good Chrome OS will be or how it will look. But if you want something that might look like Chrome OS and still use your favourite Linux distribution, try Chrome-Like Theme Pack.
Ubuntulife blog post
Just because you are free to do or make something, does not always mean its a good idea. An extreme example is your free to jump off a bridge. But that freedom does mean its a good idea to do.
Thats where Linux Distro’s have gotten. There are so many Distro’s that "choice" is an illusion. But. For one moment, let us imagine, Google Chrome OS creates a program packaging standard, like the Mac OS X’s .dmg, they buy out the top three, Ubuntu, Fedora and Suse. Create a open environment. Will the other distro’s shrivel away?
Luis De Alba on examiner
The attractiveness of Google Chrome OS is not its claims to be more secure (Google’s software applications do not inspire confidence), but rather in the logic of achieving better security through a new approach. Saving documents in the Google data center lessens the burden of endpoint data security, a barebones OS reduces the attack surface of privileged code to protect, and downloading trusted applications to execute on a temporary basis can simplify configuration management. Many customers are using virtual desktops from Ringcube Technologies Inc. and Virtual Computer Corp., as well as Citrix Systems Inc. and VMware Inc. to assure compliant endpoint configurations. While Symantec and Cisco Systems Inc. focus on reputation filtering, and Trend Micro Inc. tilts its product mix to cloud security services, Microsoft is silent in the dialog for the future of secure computing.
Eric Ogren at SearchSecurity.com
True, many other operating system have come and gone, all of which were heralded as The One to take down the mighty Windows. So what then makes this new challenge so different?
In defending its plans for both Android and the new Chrome OS, Google has said that while Chrome OS is optimized for the web, Android is device “agnostic,” possible to run on a myriad of products, including even refrigerators. However, Android has so far only been available on a handful of phones.
Android was set to move beyond the mobile phone to the netbook but those plans have been put in limbo since the announcement of Chrome OS, since many of the same PC makers who were going to put Android on their computers have since said they are working with Google on Chrome OS.
The company hasn’t clearly defined how it will make money with the new open source operating system, but when considering Chrome’s overall goal, it becomes clear where Google generates revenue: anywhere it wants to on the web. While not exactly intended to be a cash machine, the Chrome OS is designed to keep users on the web, which is good news for Google. With an entire operating system based on getting users on the web faster and more efficiently, every web-based game you play, every YouTube video you watch and every email message you send is endless potential revenue for Google. Through effective targeted advertising and quality apps, Google stands to profit tremendously from virtually every person that uses Chrome in one way or another.
A cloud operating system is unnecessary at this point in the evolutionary cycle of the technology. Part of the allure of the cloud is its reliance on the internet, which, as everyone knows, is built on established, well-supported standards such as TCP/IP.
Applications served via the internet are almost always transported via HTTP, which completes the standards-based trifecta that has long supported the web, and now makes the cloud realistic.
Nothing special is required for an operating system to support the cloud. No new standards, no new capabilities, and no new functionality at the operating-system layer.
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