Techcrunch titled their article about Google Chrome OS “Google Drops A Nuclear Bomb On Microsoft. And It’s Made of Chrome.”[6] and that’s exactly what Google has done. Google has finally challenged Microsoft’s monopoly.

2 Responses to “Google Operating System”

1. Rygir on September 9th, 2009 11:52 pm

   It’s not really an os, the way a terminal isn’t really a workstation….

   I am looking forward to the new windowing system because damn…X is crap :p
   Well maybe it’s not crap, but compared to windows….it’s just unstable and slow. Or maybe it’s the mountain of extension on top of it, I don’t know, but I would love to see something stiff.

   Then again, I don’t want any google executable on my machine…who knows what kind of spying goes on :p

   Also…. a “chrome based OS”? Who the hell bases an OS on a web browser?! Oh right microsoft *cough* internet explorer.

   You know, they’re going to get the same lawsuits microsoft did demanding to support other browsers (and media players) if they’re not careful .

   Personally, I’d love to see Windows, stripped down to the core, so I could put in my own “auto update” mechanism, my own “search engine”, my own webbrowser, my own file manager (note that this has to be able to provide file manager views for applications who have an “open file dialog” etc… just dumping in another “explorer” alternative doesn’t cut it). Not because I love windows so much, but because the basics, the windowing and the driver mechanism is just way more stable and uniform than in a unix environment. Having a predictable and solid base is important to me…

   Hm. If that sounded like a pro-windows rant, it’s not. It’s my way of saying “there is no decent OS yet.”. It’s a wish list of features. It’s the proven components of each OS and some that have yet to be made (by me?) .

   Anyway, google’s OS is probably going to be unix compatible, so it’ll be like a stripped down linux distro or BSD flavor, is going to grow towards Android and eventually be merged in all likelihood, or one superseding the other.

   I doubt it’ll support games, in particular 3D… but…seeing as how phones are getting “3D” acceleration, they might just plan to include something. And I doubt they’d include directX, so this probably means OpenGL could get a shot in the arm… because google has the resources to put this thing on the map. And the key aspects are definitly admirable. Speed would make it the BEST gaming platform, from the start(fast, lightweight, sounds like my gaming OS, right now I use a stripped down OS).

   ARM chips…aren’t those used in phones already? And in appliances like TV settop boxes and routers? That would be a large market…

   Also…cloud computing. That would mean that if you have a TV settop box, a refrigerator, a router, a phone, a watch even, not to mention laptops and multiple machines, network storage, a car, a GPS and much, much more… all of those could pool resources to an extent, making for a rather excellent interface allowing you to control your entire IT infrastructure from one terminal, say, your laptop or cell phone, as if you’re working on any of the machines directly…. also, for non-realtime calculations, you could use them all simultaneously, making indexing jobs and sorting jobs, decoding and encoding jobs work that much faster.

   if that’s not mouthwatering, I don’t know what is.

   The whole working on the web is not my style though. It’s basically like putting your office on the highway. Sure, everything is nearby but everyone is looking at you through the windows.

   With regards to Microsoft’s monopoly… it’s more of a sideways stab, since it’s not aimed as a desktop OS replacement. It’s more for terminal style stuff, like settop boxes for TVs. So in a way, Windows Mobile/CE/Media Center competition…

2. Isla Watson on April 28th, 2010 2:46 am

   I have tried using Chrome OS in one of my desktop PC’s, the overall performance is above average to excellent “

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