Here is a quote from the Google Blog Announcement
Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010. Because we're already talking to partners about the project, and we'll soon be working with the open source community, we wanted to share our vision now so everyone understands what we are trying to achieve.Bill Gates really needs to think deeply about the direction Microsoft is taking. Because if he is not careful, he could find his company a victim of the changing times. Google is innovating, growing, and expanding, while Microsoft struggles to keep up in many key areas. Microsoft gained its dominance by doing what Google is doing right now. They created a product that made computers easier to use and benefited greatly from the lack of meaningful competition, especially in the OS market.
Speed, simplicity and security are the key aspects of Google Chrome OS. We're designing the OS to be fast and lightweight, to start up and get you onto the web in a few seconds. The user interface is minimal to stay out of your way, and most of the user experience takes place on the web. And as we did for the Google Chrome browser, we are going back to the basics and completely redesigning the underlying security architecture of the OS so that users don't have to deal with viruses, malware and security updates. It should just work.
Google is now doing the same, coming into a market place and bringing innovative products linking them all together to support an ever expanding network to increase its market share. This is how Google has continued to grow from being just a search engine to something much, much, more.
If Google can accomplish its goal of creating a faster and easier to use Operating System, Microsoft could be an extinct or an endangered species in less then 10 Years. Google Chrome OS could be immensely popular and I definitely look forward to using it.
Microsoft has definitely outlived its usefulness. It's just not developing worthwhile products anymore. Its biggest products, the Office suite and Windows OS, are fully mature. MSFT generates income by creating updates of these and forcing everyone to buy a new copy, but there's really not that much to improve on. The 2007 Office update was terrible. Vista doesn't really do anything XP didn't do.
ReplyDeleteThe key for Chrome's success is developing a critical mass so that commercial developers write apps for it. Linux hasn't done that yet, and having 101 different flavors doesn't help. Getting an open-source OS with the Google brand name is a big step in the right direction.