After the launch of iPhone 3GS and the demise of The King of Pop, it had to be this news. For those blessed ones who are not compelled by the urge to check(every 'x' minutes) their Google news updates, twitter messages or Facebook status updates from their friends, desperate to post the latest and the hottest happenings in the world, here is the story for you: Google announced their next step in their journey towards world domination - the Google Chrome based light weight Google Operating System.
Well, this wasn't a surprise to at least a few of us who had realized Google's intentions around mid 2004(a little late, I agree) with their launch of Gmail(which of course went Out Of Beta, as they call it, just yesterday). Until then, their servers had all of the world's web based public information and now they would have all of the private information. Smooth!
Of course many of us didn't have too much of an idea about how this(world domination) was going to be achieved, as in, there wasn't a blueprint as such. At least it wasn't obvious to me, until Amazon started making a big deal about their Cloud Computing technology and Google's acquisition of Upstartle and 2Web Technologies in late 2006 and the subsequent launch of Google docs in early 2007. All the pieces started to fit together and the realization of what was to happen of desktop computing of the near future dawned on us - an exokernel at the bottom and a light weight windowing system like a fairly complex browser(something on the lines of SAP GUI, for those who know what that is) on top. This is of course going to be interesting to see how our supposedly intelligent personal computers of today turn into dumb-terminal like units of the 70s, of course with a windowing system this time and services of cloud computing to back it up with.
I wonder if personal computers would still be called by the same name. If not my alternate suggestion would be: Light OS Cloud-Backed Infrastructure (LOSCHBI - pronounced Losh-Bee). Of course this would be a description of the entire system and not just the end units we'd have at homes(laps/palms).
4 comments:
This move towards increased centralization is rather worrying actually. What happens when you can't boot your computer because Google servers are down?
Anyway, good for the high-perf computing guys I guess :D, massive computing clouds and all.
-priyananda
@Priyananda: Completely agree with you. Imagine doing all 'personal' computing on their servers. Hahaha.
BTW remember, the discussions about SAP-GUI we used to have and how it could be extended into a more complex beast, at SLI, back in 2005?
What do you suggest? Should you now have regulations around what activities a company can do on a case by case basis?
You could say the same thing about Microsoft's Bing too right?
I think your worries are unfounded. "Survival of the fittest" :D
I dont think so it will be like that. Because Google is planing to launch their Android OS for Desktop and they have tested it on ASUS powered notebooks.
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