Google Operating System Chrome Announced

zee — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 18:29:36 +0000

So finally it happened, after years of rumours and rumors on Google OS, its official now. Google is going to hit the market with its own Operating System called Google Chrome OS . It seems like Google is heading backwards, first they developed a browser and now around it they are going to engineer an operating system.

So what does Google Chrome Means ?
Well according to their press release they are expected to release it not before 2010. As its going to be a very basic operating system so of course it wont be as powerful as Microsoft or OSX. But its going to be open source source so its free and with the Google API experience it would give developers to develop apps on it free of cost and maybe sell it on their app store. Apart from that competition with Microsoft 7 and OSX is going to be tough. Consumer market maybe but corporate sector i am not sure.

Features of Google Chrome Operating System:
Though in their press release Google did not reveal any part of their operating system so lets assume what could be so wonderful about Google OS, could it be revolutionary like iPhone which i am not sure as they always build simple / better and then focus on revolution. So here is what i think Google OS could bring along:

It wont crash at least it would not have a blue screen.
No viruses and Trojans, probably they are redoing the architecture around Linux so no virus and secure.
Gmail Account will be your log in name to the operation system, you are logged into the operating system you are logged into every Google product no more login / password screens.
Not cluttered with baseless applications like .Net framework in Windows Vista, and a chunk of useless software’s and applications.
Its Free of cost means reduced prices on notebooks (though Ubuntu / Linux made such attempts didn’t work out pretty well so lets see what Google pulls out of that).
Very simple and easy to install 3 clicks install would be awesome, of course drivers should be installed with it.
As it wont have cluttered applications so maybe they might be able to jump up internet speed / video streaming speed / browsing speed.
No need for offline applications, web will be build in the operating system everything in it will be connected with web, for office usage use Google Docs, Calendar use Google Calendar.
Very few desktop applications, initially or for a couple of years.
No more flashy screens or desktop, simple clean and usable.
No more starting an OS you open your laptop and your operating system is on, basically there shouldn’t be a shutdown or restart feature in the operating system.
Maybe web apps would be able to work offline in Google Chrome, i.e. python application, php, java application will run smoothly offline and fill in the lack of missing apps.
Interface is going to be as simple as Chrome, means no flashy elements, no effects and no heavy graphical user interface.
Core focus of the Operating system is going to be go online and work around the web, for office use Google Docs, for videos use youTube.

Well they are mostly just random prediction, no one can be sure how well it goes or would it be Microsoft OS killer. We would have to wait and see.

Web Operating System gOS goes live !

zee — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 17:44:06 +0000

With the web evolving at a very high speed do we really need an operating system or do we only need a web browser? If i look at the my web activity and my desktop activity what is the one thing that i use more then anything else i would say a web browser.

Years back we used to use our desktop to process documents (using Microsoft Office) we used to check our e-mails(using Microsoft Outlook) we used to chat with friends (using MSN messenger, ICQ, AOL), we used to manage our photo galleries into folders, listened the music on winamp. But things have changed now everything we used to do offline is online, we have broadband internet to access our online applications, we use google docs to process our documents, we use gmail to check all our e-mails, we use meebo to get in touch with our friends(on gtalk, msn, aol, yahoo messenger), we use flickr to manage our pictures, we use YouTube to watch our videos, we use wikipedia to access our encyclopedia & we use last.fm to listen to our music. Do we Really need a Microsoft Windows ?

If i talk in terms of web developers and engineers yes at some level we do need linux or Windows, but if i talk in terms of general people, who use the computer in there daily activity they don’t need a full fledged OS with 1000′s of pre installed applications, spend ridiculous amount of money on softwares, firewalls, anti virus and worry all the time about the computer crashing and loosing there data.

Keeping this in view on 7th January 2008 goS (Green Operating System) lacunches.

What is gos ?
gOS is an operating system build for one purpose providing support and easy access to online web applications. In simple terms instead of the icons on our computer pointint to applications, in gOS we have icons pointing directly to our online web applications.

Technically gOS is a cut down version of ubuntu 7.10 dektop, who’s focus is online applications like gmail, google news, google maps, youTube, mebo and many more.

It’s a neat Linux distribution which is made for shifting our regular desktop apps to online apps. The OS is based on linux so you can definately install desktop apps such as open office etc but its core focus is web2.0 sites and online applications. Shifting desktop to web.

Who made gos ?
David Liu made gOS.

How can i get gos ?
You can simple get gOS by downloading from here.

How much does it cost ?
Its free of cost, if you have an old computer just download and install you dont have to spend a penny. Though if you dont have a computer then you can buy a new PC from WalMart for $199.

Quick Look at gOS
It comes with :

check out the screen shot below :

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Google Operating System Chrome Announced

Web Operating System gOS goes live !