What impact will Googles foray into the Operating System space in 2010 have on the computing industry?
This was selected as Best Answer Google Chrome OS is not an operating system at all. It’s a Linux distribution with a Chrome-based UI, aimed at people who spend most of their time using netbooks on the web. Then developers can write Python or Java apps that live in Google’s cloud, along with Google Docs, and users can get to them from a Google Chrome OS web browser. Google hasn’t said how it expects to make money from this, but CNET thinks it’s likely to be the usual route: ads. Yup, I’m gonna run right out and get it. Not. Based on history, here’s what you can expect: 1. It’s yet another Linux distro. Snore. 2. Your data will all live in Google’s cloud. So if they have an outage, or decide to suspend your account for some inexplicable reason, as has happened to some people, well, you’re screwed. 3. If you do have a problem, Google has to date not really had tech support lines that mortals could call. And I don’t expect them to change that policy. 4. More ads. 5. When you do run your a
