[UPDATE] Updated with link to Gizmodo which attempts to explain in plain English what Google Chrome OS is.
One of the major announcements of a couple of days ago was that Google was going to release its own operating system, built around the Google Chrome browser. In essence, it is a new operating system, open source, designed from the ground up, for people who do a lot of their work in the cloud, ie. on the internet. The announcement dovetailed nicely into news that Google has removed the beta labels from some of its major products, including GMail and Google Apps. And those two applications are, of course, applications that help you do work in the cloud; Google Docs, a “replacement” for Microsoft Office, is amongst the others in Google’s arsenal of cloud applications.
The Chrome OS will run mainly on netbooks or lower powered computers and will be available on netbooks in the second half of 2010 onwards, which is still a long way away, although the source code will be released earlier for developers to build applications on it. The focus of Chrome OS will be a lightweight, fast and fast booting operating system, designed to get the user to be productive within seconds of booting up the device on which it runs.
Yesterday, Google also announced its “seed” partners for the Chrome OS – Acer, Adobe, ASUS, Freescale, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments. Rather conspicuously absent are Intel (most Chrome OS installations are expected to run on the Intel x86 architecture processors) and Dell, the world’s number 2 PC maker. Click here for some further elaboration on the Chrome OS, straight from the horse’s mouth.
So, should we be excited? Or do we expect it to fall by the wayside like all the Linux distributions out there, relegated to be used only by the true geeks because most users are simply too stupid busy to learn a new OS as well as hunt for applications that they’re currently using on Windows?
[UPDATE] Gizmodo attempts to demystify the Google Chrome OS here.
Whether or not it will supersede King Windows will depend a lot on what
the king does from now.
But knowing Prince Google , it will succeed
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Da Alpha Dog Reply:
July 9th, 2009 at 4:34 pm
@tonixe, the King will introduce Windows Lite!
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Great News
Google to launch Chrome OS
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It would be even better if Chrome OS is able to run Windows Apps, that would really force the King to produce Lite…. haha!
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Da Alpha Dog Reply:
July 10th, 2009 at 12:29 pm
@hkboey, I think Windows Lite is coming! Soon!!!
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going to see better instant on by google and app.
but nothing is free…
may be this google os also come with plenty of advertisement , unless u paying google to buy no adverstisemnet os google os…( i guess ) …
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