Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 8th Jul 2009 05:23 UTC
From NYTimes: "In a post on its company blog, Google said the operating system would initially be aimed at netbooks, the compact, low-cost computers that have turned the PC world on its head. It said the open-source software, called Chrome OS, would be available in the second half of next year. Read more for a quick observation on the announcement.
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Folks keep aiming a Microsoft as the big loser here, but there are others who may be feeling a bit queasy. Intel, for example - not so much need for those high-power, high-margin desktop chips. Or some OEMs - not so much need for those high-power desktop machines either or even for high-power notebooks. A small and modest lappy will do nicely.
This has clearly been coming for a few years now, so there's hardly a need for surprise. No, I don't imagine cloud computing will work brilliantly if you live in the middle of nowhere, but then few people do. Google's apps seem to start from a solid urban base, like their wifi experiments, and then work outward. I'd guess this will true of their cloud computing too. It's hard to see why it shouldn't work perfectly well and prove pretty darn popular.
As for Microsoft, they have a few arrows in the quiver, too. It is up to them to come up with good competing offers. But the real money for Microsoft comes from MS Office, corporates and all those server OSes. These aren't under immediate threat and it's hard to see any of this as a "war". It's the hardware makers who might find themselves shafted first of all. That could include some of the thicker mobile boyos if Google on a netbook and Android on mobiles can be made to mesh really really well.