With all the recent hype surrounding Google's Chrome, it's refreshing to see someone taking a few steps back and looking at the bigger picture. Superlatives were abound about Chrome (I personally really like it), but some people really took it overboard - take TechCrunch for instance: "Chrome is nothing less than a full on desktop operating system that will compete head on with Windows." Seeing my nationality, I know a tulip mania when I see one. So does Ted Dziuba.
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I agree with you about the "There's No such things as a WebOS." If you maximize the Chrome browser window and your Google web apps persist their state on your local PC you essentially have a desktop environment with a fancy web interface. You could call it a WDE (Web Desktop environment). This is a layer on top of the applications layer. It is a pretty common error for new Linux users to call their environment an OS when they are really referring to KDE, Gnome, XFCE, etc.
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I agree more with your statement in regards to Desktop Environments. But even the idea of an online operating environment will not fly far simply because of privacy and security issues. Basically and good legal team of said service would deem everything that you create and store on their servers as THEIR property or give them exclusive rights to the created or stored data. If you doubt me, just read the EULAs or their Terms for use. This will not fly in the corporate world, nor far with your average joe on the internet. People already store their documents in their emails anyway. Not to mention flash drives, etc.
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2006-08-25
An OS directly deals wih the hardware as the host of your applications. With Chrome, and all other Web browsers, you need an OS to host that! Even if the theory of a WebOS was true, would you entrust your Hardware to the Web? Imagine the exploitation possibilities!