Google Chrome OS

Announced today at I/O. Here's an overview video that Google uploaded:





You can check the entire presentation here: http://www.engadget.com/2009/11/19/live-from-googles-chrome-os-project-announcement/

I'm not going to be optimistic, but it is interesting enough that I'll keep track of news related to it. I don't have much faith in what Google is really capable of, but I wouldn't mind be surprised.

google is taking the piss now they have the largest search engine on the web, they are releasing a phone, now an OS what are they gong for global domination???

They're pushing the limits, I'm not to optimistic about this, maybe because of the fact they just released a browser that they've been blinded that they can create an OS.

At least that's my view, but there is that other side that is indeed curious on how the OS would perform.

I'll admit, I am excited to see if they can live up to this claim.

Well I'm stoked. Pretty soon Google will have their own computers. And It'll be Microsoft, Mac, or Chrome. Or maybe one less. =O

Yes.

Really, it's the nature of Google to develop and collect.
They've also started doing this in the real world, if you haven't noticed.
Not only the whole street view thing, but also, the OCEAN FLOOR.

So from a web browser to an OS.

Let's see if they can come up with something decent.>_>

I'm putting my hopes into Google with this one.


If Google can pull this off, I will convert to Googlism.

Google are trying to compete with Microsoft?

Google are not quite the software geniuses that Microsoft are. Will be interesting how it will work and what features it has. Google especially needs to lock to down game support for their OS to have some sort of success.

I think it will be a great OS at first, but then after it becomes popular people are going to demand that it do more and more things. So when they make it able to play a larger selection of games, run more programs, be compatible with window programs, and support a varitey of hardware, the OS will become a big OS system just as bulky as Windows or Apple's OSX

If it can't run prehistoric era XX century video games I don't want it. Already have enough troubles to run Fallout 2 on my windows xp.

This OS is most likely strictly for this miniature laptops called netbooks that I've seen a few people have. You wouldn't really want to do anything other than surf the web, check your email, and copy down lecture notes with it. Not to say you can't do anything else with it.

Not everyone buys a computer to play games. In fact, gamers are a niche market.

And I think Google's come up with more innovations in the last 2 years than Microsoft has ever done.



Have faith that Google will make this OS different from everything else. Take a look at Chrome.



Direct quote from Google:

Yes i know that gaming is a very small percentage of the global market. But you know that's just for me and home PC users.

Business use is what would determine success. Given businesses weren't even prepared to shift to Vista from XP, (understandably) the concept of shifting to an entirely new OS, where most business applications are designed to run on windows isn't going to gain much traction in the short/medium term. Therefore i don't see the google OS to lift off for at-least 3 years.

You're pretty much right, although if I were Microsoft or Apple, I'd be a bit scared - there are quite a lot of people who'll jump at this just because it's Google.

I will always run Windows just to play games, and Mac OS X for everything else. For that matter, both OS's fulfill their roles perfectly. I can't see Chrome OS snatching the gaming market as you say, so it will have to compete with OS X for me.

It's hard to imagine something this young can compete with the OS that started it all back in 1984. Then again, Google's products have never let down (OK I suppose Google Calendar sorta sucked) and I think they just might have what it takes to give Apple a run for the money (actually no running will be involved on Google's side since this thing will be free, so only Apple I suppose).

I think 3 years is a tad optimistic, there is no way businesses are gonna take to this right away, In my opinion, the smartest move on the part of google would be to direct their focus toward the average consumer, between how crappy both Windows and Mac are, it's about the only place they will find any real traction. Maybe if their OS catches on with the public they can change their focus toward businesses in the future, for now though we're the people they should be targeting

It's not surprising for Google, I mean it's like a new frontier for them. It's basically stagnant as a business to stay in a single line of work and never bother to expand. Google is the best search engine now. They're trying to be the best web browser.

And now they're taking this Gates OS monopoly and aiming to give it a quick, swift kick in the crotch.

Hopefully they make good on their OS' premise, it sounds good.

It is just another linux-distribution. And it wont kill windows-monopolismn because of the same reasons than the other linux-distributions: It is not 100% like a windows. And the default windows-user is too stupid/inconsequent/ignorant/windows-liking to relearn (allmost) everthing what they knew about computers.

So, the google OS still faces some pretty big challenges. Right now, the idea of completely web-based computing isn't quite there yet. This will be an excellent OS for netbooks, but most of us at this point still have quite a few other programs we want to run on our primary computers. Google is going to need to support and have software developers support compatibility for their OS without having to jump through hoops. It is possible to run Office and iTunes on the google OS, but at this point it requires advanced commands that most people don't know and don't want to deal with. It's also going to need features to manage these programs. And the further you go in this direction, the more you become like Mac OS or Windows, big and bloated.

And of course, the makers of iTunes and Office don't have a lot of incentive to make things easier for google OS, do they?

If the future of almost completely web-based computing is realized, then the google OS might go somewhere, but until then, as has been said, it's just another linux distribution and isn't going anywhere for the same reasons as the past ones.

EDIT: I thought it might be a good idea to make clear what I mean by web-based computing. The idea is that instead of running programs from your machine, you log online and use things like Google Docs that run from your browser. At this point, the offerings online just don't match up at all in terms of quality with the programs you can put on your computer, and until that changes, people will still run programs off their own HD.