The latest buzz this week in the IT world has to be the news from Mountain View that after dallying with the Chrome browser, Google wants to go into OS development next.
The hegemony of Microsoft is continually being challenged by the Google boys. Google is undoubtedly the King of the Cloud – now that they have dominated the search engine world. Get this… for the year 2008, Google generates US$21,128,514,000 just from advertising income alone. (That is a cool RM74 billion).
The King is not happy with his current kingdom, which king ever has
, and wants to extend his kingdom down to desktop-earth. His logic said that since the internet cloud is accessed through the plain old browser, the next step would be to conquer the browser world. Voila! Google Chrome was born.
Unfortunately, the Cloud King discovered that the browser by the incumbent Desktop King, ‘IE’ ,is hard to beat. Most of the world netizens are tied to the operating system provided by the Desktop King. 87.8% to be exact. And the Desktop King has sneakily made his browser intertwined with the OS. No amount of legal challenges and court orders have managed to separate them.
What is the Cloud King to do?
What else, let’s build our own OS
, say the King. We’ll say that the OS will be simpler and fresher. Surely the faithful netizens would love a new thing that’s clean and elegant as Google interface – compared with the complex overbearing system they have to bear with now. The Fruity King Pretender? We’ll deal with him later. Let him rest first. Corvette Summer buy
And that’s how we are faced with Google Chrome OS – supposed in one year time. Of course, they put it in a nicer context:
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.
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.
That will be interesting to watch eh. I just hope that it does not become gajah dengan gajah bergaduh, kancil ditengah mati tersepit.
What do other people think?
commented that:
Microsoft may look vulnerable, but it’s a behemoth with loyal (if not enthusiastic) users, billions in cash and a willingness to eventually catch up to faster competitors.
Ms Foley, who writes under category ‘All About Microsoft’ in Zdnet cautioned whether Will Google’s Chrome OS look rusty by late 2010?.
All the world is a playground – and when your salary comes to RM78 billions – the Cloud King can afford to play a lot!
Ash is not paranoia. It is just that his keen sense of observation makes him see patterns that others fail to see.