Google’s Chrome to take on Microsoft’s Windows
The very dynamics of how we access and relate to the Internet could alter dramatically once Google’s Chrome operating system is launched one year from now. This is especially because most of us have not seen any other operating system other than Microsoft’s Windows, which has a 90 per cent market share.
Google shook up the tech community and the cyber world after posting an official blog recently. Google Chrome is a Web browser, nine month old, with a meagre penetration of below three per cent. “We are announcing a new project that’s a natural extension of Google Chrome ~ the Google Chrome Operating System. It's our attempt to re-think what operating systems should be”, the blog said.
This year-end Google would release the code behind its operating system and the global tech community or the open source community would be free to alter or tweak the code till a full-fledged system falls in place.
“Speed, simplicity and security are the key aspects of Google operating system. We are designing the system to be fast and lightweight, to start up and get you onto the Web in a few seconds. ... Users don’t have to deal with viruses, malware and security updates. It should just work”, Google said.
To put it simply Google’s operating system would be nothing but having the Web as the operating system. For instance one can store word documents, spread sheets or Excel sheets remotely on the Internet.
There are several places where one can get this facility for free and Google is one of them. So is the case with presentations or pdf documents. The software in general would be based on another open source version, Linux.
Its present target is netbooks, meaning lap tops having a heavy dependence on the Internet. This is Google’s first hurdle as the hardware manufacturers are still silent on what they will do with the option Chrome presents. Further they have been for years used to bundle Windows operating system with their PCs or laps tops.
The renowned Economist best summed up the situation, “Will there be a clear winner? Probably not in the foreseeable future. The pockets of both firms are simply too deep. And that is a good thing: the epic fight between the two giants promises to speed up innovation. And that is what the IT industry needs to overcome the recession”.
Google shook up the tech community and the cyber world after posting an official blog recently. Google Chrome is a Web browser, nine month old, with a meagre penetration of below three per cent. “We are announcing a new project that’s a natural extension of Google Chrome ~ the Google Chrome Operating System. It's our attempt to re-think what operating systems should be”, the blog said.
This year-end Google would release the code behind its operating system and the global tech community or the open source community would be free to alter or tweak the code till a full-fledged system falls in place.
“Speed, simplicity and security are the key aspects of Google operating system. We are designing the system to be fast and lightweight, to start up and get you onto the Web in a few seconds. ... Users don’t have to deal with viruses, malware and security updates. It should just work”, Google said.
To put it simply Google’s operating system would be nothing but having the Web as the operating system. For instance one can store word documents, spread sheets or Excel sheets remotely on the Internet.
There are several places where one can get this facility for free and Google is one of them. So is the case with presentations or pdf documents. The software in general would be based on another open source version, Linux.
Its present target is netbooks, meaning lap tops having a heavy dependence on the Internet. This is Google’s first hurdle as the hardware manufacturers are still silent on what they will do with the option Chrome presents. Further they have been for years used to bundle Windows operating system with their PCs or laps tops.
The renowned Economist best summed up the situation, “Will there be a clear winner? Probably not in the foreseeable future. The pockets of both firms are simply too deep. And that is a good thing: the epic fight between the two giants promises to speed up innovation. And that is what the IT industry needs to overcome the recession”.
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