The Google Chrome OS isn’t a full OS to rival against Windows or OS X or Ubuntu. But it’s rather for netbooks. People usually use netbooks just to get online, and they don’t really do anything else. This is supposed to take the operating system out of the picture to simplify it.

I’m sure Google will eventually make a FULL operating system, but this isn’t it.

2nd Since it’s not “time tried and reliable” (MS is time tried and reliability is predicable but not guaranteed) it’ll resort to more of a hobbist or an educational type environment where money spent is far more important than money made.

3rd When Chrome goes live the hourglass will turn over for it also. When MS began in the 80’s programming tools were made readily available and were cheap, some even free. My first copy of Basic 5 was free and my upgrade to 7.0 was very cheap (oop’s I’m telling my age). I was even given a free copy of Visual Basic for MS-DOS (bet some of you never knew such an animal existed) just for attending a MS siminar in Charlotte, NC. That’s where loyalty is generated; give programmers tools for low to no money that they earn money to feed their families with and a following (not love) is built.

4th Marketing is dirty business. MS literally drowned IBM’s OS2 (which I and my brother worked on modules for big blue, now I’m really telling my age) and IBM was forced into the decision of if the chase was worth the prize. OS2 was a much more mature OS early on and had the promise of connecting the PC world to really Big Iron in a more direct fashion than WindowsNT or LAN-Man, but MS had the marketing. Put Windows 7 (full version) on a billion netbooks and pass’em out like candy and it’ll be a very tuff act to follow. Goggle’s marketing machine is geared towards advertising other companies products; when they start touting their own stuff as much or more than the other guys, their purse will drain quickly, remember “a house divided can not stand”.

I also don’t trust in clouds as much, they seem to bring rain every so often and when they do, my Gmail goes poof. Now if Google could somehow partner with Backupify and back up your cloud data, there might be less concern here. I’m interested to see what happens in the end though. I will test Chrome OS alongside Windows 7 when a beta is released. No I don’t want a virtual machine image, I want the real deal with most of the features done.

Google OS is a LINUX based OS and therefor supports a load of hardware. Also boots under 6 seconds and runs on the Google Chrome browser as a interface. It was NOT designed to be a full fledged OS like Windows 7. But rather something you can run on a cheap netbook.

Also.. I run Linux 24/7 and only use windows 7 for games. I do not even use Microsoft’s Office anymore. So the features that come with the browser interface (gmail, google docs, etc) is PERFECT for everyday use.

but Google failing seems to be quite unlikely.

If they can make people switch from Mozilla to Chrome, I’m pretty sure beating Microsoft wont be all that difficult. Besides having followed Google quite carefully, I’ve realized they happen to understand what users expect better than other companies.

Hence the confidence.

I’ve used all versions of Windows, WindowsMe was probably the worse, followed by Vista. Seven is good but its missing something, dunno what … just doesn’t feel as great as XP

Maybe Google will be able to pull it off and rid of the monotony/monopoly of Windows/Microsoft.

Lets see how long before Cloud clears..

Darknight