Will Google Chrome live up to the hype?
Planning to be released to the public in late 2010, Google announced it's first attempt at designing an operating system Google Chrome OS. Building off of their work with Android, Google now wants to push the technology to the increasing population of netbook users. The goal is to create a product that is fast and light weight, sending most of the work to be done on the internet not the computer. This means users who spend most of their time on the web will no longer have to wait for background programs to launch before being able to begin their browsing.
Why is this even possible? People have begun to use online tools increasingly over the past few years to do what you would traditionally do on the desktop. Things such as webmail, calendars, chat, document management, etc. Google is seeing an opportunity to remove the need of desktop operating systems and create one that only uses the web. It is expected to be able to run on most PC platforms, on both x86 and ARM chips and they are working with multiple OEMs to bring a number of netbooks to the market next year.
With it being so web centered, there is concern out there about the integrity of the security. They plan to incorporate the strategy they used when creating the Chrome browser and redesign the underlying security architecture of the OS protecting its users from viruses, malware and security updates. Telling users not to worry "it should just work".
The developers at Google are not in at alone. They plan to release the open source code to the community later this year and are encouraging the community to develop for the project. How much will this OS cost? Sources are estimating a whopping $0. Yes free. Why? Because it's Linux based and it's open-sourced. I guess we'll see in 2010.
Wednesday, July 8, 2009
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