Re: Google announces chrome OS. This is real big!
 

I recommend Wubi.

Re: Google announces chrome OS. This is real big!
 

To me, it proves the opposite. That Google actually understands the market better than most others. Heavy, legacy, slow OS's that will invariably fracture or render hardware obsolete in just one or two iterations (ahem, Nokia) shouldn't be tolerated at all anymore.

Regardless, with a browser, they have: docs, calendars, e-mail, chat, voice, file storage, internet, advertising. WebOS went that way, ChromeOS is going that way.

I don't quite think they'll get it right for a few more years, but I welcome this.

Re: Google announces chrome OS. This is real big!
 

OK, so Microsoft got sued b/c their operating system worked too closely with Internet Explorer, right?

So, fast forward to 2010. I've got my Google OS netbook. I go to my e-mail. Someone sent me a Word doc. I open it -- oops? What happens now? Do I have to have a Google Docs account to view it? What if I use Hotmail or Yahoo mail (like sachin007 said)? What if Microsoft creates an online Word Viewer?

Google has this ecosystem of web apps that all work together & now it will all be delivered on a computer. Microsoft will probably do the same thing leveraging Windows Live (and Gazelle???). But will these ecosystems be closed, or will they play nice with each other? If not, will lawsuits come?

And I'm STILL not going to store all my sensitive personal documents in a cloud. I'm not ready to give up my hard drive.

Re: Google announces chrome OS. This is real big!
 

It is funny how paranoid people can get over another semi-viable netbook Linux distro. Any of you bothered to consider whether this mighty Google OS would run MS Office? =)

Re: Google announces chrome OS. This is real big!
 

After using Google Docs via the browser, I'd rather not use MS Office when in a rush.

Re: Google announces chrome OS. This is real big!
 

They will understand the market right up to the point when the Web 2.0 baloons start poppin'... How many web "Office suites" or OSes are left lately?

And without browser they have... nothing. They can't rewrite it for the desktop, so why not making another web desktop?

Re: Google announces chrome OS. This is real big!
 

Be paranoid all you want; Google wants your eye balls, not your data. In the end, there will be secure FOSS clients for all Google services and all your data will be encrypted by said clients. I'll take the free transport and backup.

Re: Google announces chrome OS. This is real big!
 

And what has the desktop done since the first version(s)? Not changed, not one bit. Face it, this is a change... not the best one, but a change nonetheless.

But to answer your "web office suites"... Microsoft Office Live, ThinkFree Office, Google Docs among others.

OS's? Heh, in an extremely simplified view, there's Linux, OSX, Windows. All others, Android, Maemo, Moblin, Mobile OSX, WinMo... are just iterations of the aforementioned three (in a simplified manner).

Now... when it was Maemo being offered as an alternative, it was welcomed. Why the knee-jerk reaction to this as an alternative?

It's better than having none.

Re: Google announces chrome OS. This is real big!
 

And what will the web bring to the table? Slow centralized cloud webapps which will simulate work while offline?

That's like one then? We're talking about Google and Microsoft Office is not exactly web only.

I was talking about web "OSes" but it probably wasn't very clear.

What I really meant was how much of these Web 2.0 ventures die in a single year? Google is big and that shields it from mistakes but it doesn't mean that Google doesn't make mistakes.

The reaction is simple - its nothing world shattering that will change the course of the history. It will have its uses and that's all.

Re: Google announces chrome OS. This is real big!
 

It is said that an elephant can eat 500kg of fruit a day. Nobody lets him though. :)