ChromeOS

[pasithea]

Perhaps MicroSoft shouldn't have been so heavily marketing that search engine. Looks like they made the beast angry. http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8139711.stm

Should be very interesting to see how this goes. I suspect it will be a while before Maya or Photoshop run on Chrome, but I bet they port over Blender and Gimp.

I'm a little leery of a web-based OS though. Especially one that I'm guessing will be heavily reliant on Flash for many of its applications. Sure it's nice to have documents stored in a common repository and be able to share them with friends/co-workers on the other side of the continent. And probably, taking away file management from the average user is going to vastly the average user's ability to really mess up. But, (if that's indeed their model, please note I'm speculating wildly based on nothing) it seems like it's only a matter of time before someone then begins trying to charge you for use to your data and/or regulating your data. I'm very much in favor of a free society and try to do stuff to contribute to that fairly often, but I'm well aware that neither telecom companies nor governments work on that model.

Ohwell. No sense worrying about it now. I anxiously await their white papers.

Comments

[ff00ff.livejournal.com]

Though only a migration of the video game industry to a different platform could make me permanently give up Microsoft OSes I still find it hilarious that MS thought they could try to get in on the search engine business without this hilariously obvious reprisal from Google.

[prickvixen.livejournal.com]

If only it had elicited a similar response from Nintendo, say, when Microsoft went into the game console business. I'd certainly be willing to try the Super Mario OS...

[ff00ff.livejournal.com]

I would find the time limit based desktop to be very annoying. Run out of continues, and suddenly any document you were working on has to be started all over again, ugh.