Yesterday Google revealed their upcoming web based Chrome OS to the world. This video explains the OS in layman’s terms, while the video bellow shows an early developer version of the actual OS in action.
I have to say that I rather like what Google is putting forward here. Computers have changes a lot in terms of appearance since the 90’s but not at all in terms of operating system and how it’s designed to be used. I think we are reaching a point where the average consumer is aware of what they need from a computer, and for most people it’s not much. Go online, send emails, social network, edit the occassional office file.
Under that assumption I think Google’s plans for Chrome OS make a lot of sense. It’s not geared for everyone, but I do think it’s geared for and tries to address the needs of the average user.
I’m definately interested in seeing how this develops and how some of the grey areas get ironed out. One big hurdle I can think of is dealing with people’s music which has to come to live on the computer. It’s one aspect of people’s digital lives that hasn’t moved into the cloud. Streaming services like Spotify could really benefit from this OS, but I don’t see how they wil deal with the average person with all their music stored as MP3 files. That’s one area where a middle ground between the cloud and local storage needs to be found or new services, like Spotify, need to take off and become the norm.
This morning news leaked of an upcoming Google operating system based on their Chrome web browser to be used on cheap netbooks. When I first started this blog I made a 
The advertisement on the left shows what could be first Google Android based netbooks. I love that we are reaching the point where we have mature and viable alternatives to Windows. My girlfriends Windows Vista laptop is slower than a Sunday driver.
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