Google advances another challenge…
The main news this week is that Corporation Giant, Google, has been doing something that we all knew they had been doing for a very long time – Designing their own Operating System. It didn’t really come as that much of a surprise to most people. Google have already dominated the search engine market for quite some time, and the money they get from having adverts on their search engine has helped given them the resources to make them into a very impressive global company, who has some very, very impressed employee’s.
After Google released their Internet Browser – Google Chrome (which I feel is going to be having “IB” (Internet Browser) added to it so it doesn’t get confused with the Google Chrome OS) – and received many positive reviews for the first (and second) release of GC-IB, and the fact that their Android Mobile OS has been making steady inroads to the mobile devices market since 2007, most predicted it was only a matter of time before Google announced an OS for a computing platform. And guess what – they did.
Google Chrome OS is stated to be released (which I guess means in beta form) mid-2010, mainly for Netbooks to begin with, but rest assured, Laptop and PC versions won’t be far behind. The main goal of Google is to create a “simple, light, fast and secure” Operating system that is based heavily around users of the Internet, which, in case people hadn’t noticed by now, is what the vast preponderance of people do with their Computers in this day and age.
One thinks that even though it was more or less expected, Microsoft and its CEO’s probably pooped their pants when Google finally announced their Operating System. If (I actually think when) Google Chrome OS turns out to be just what people want, due to the fact that the Operating System will be free, although free alternatives to Microsoft’s Windows platform have been around for a very long time now, Microsoft’s dominance in the Operating System market will take a heavy, and very, very, severe hit.
Microsoft best be hoping that the new Windows 7, actually starts to have an impact before Google finally release their Google Chrome OS.