Google Chrome

Like many I’m anx­iously await­ing the abil­ity to down­load the new browser Google Chrome but I wanted to drop a quick line in regards to why I’m so anx­ious. Google has slowly taken over the intrawebs in the last few years, start­ing as a uni­ver­sity project, Google has become a giant. With the release of Chrome they are pois­ing them­selves to become an actual user plat­form, not only offer­ing ser­vices but becom­ing the ser­vice; since the announce­ment of Android, I’ve been think­ing of this. Google is quickly becom­ing the num­ber 1 con­tender to release a stripped down, min­i­mal­is­tic, and well sup­ported Oper­at­ing Sys­tem. I know there have been rumors of this for a while but think about it, they’re already build­ing the com­po­nents of an enter­prise grade OS with Google Apps, Chrome, and then throw in a lit­tle Android and you have the poten­tial for a full fledged plat­form. I can see a small busi­ness run­ning a free Google OS (I would gauge it would be Linux or BSD based con­sid­er­ing the stand­point on Open Source as of late by Google,) using Gmail (can be cus­tomized to a domain via google apps) as their email base, and using Google Docs/Calendar/etc for day to day operations.

Microsoft has talked about this for years, mov­ing Office and other pro­grams like it to be based online, well Google looks like they’re actu­ally doing it. Kudo’s to google, I don’t care that you’ll be index­ing every­thing I write, sell­ing my infor­ma­tion to adver­tis­ers, and gen­er­ally be direct­ing the inter­net soon, I’m on the band­wagon. Now if only you guys develop a light­weight OS that’s as flashy as Mac OS X, I’ll be in love.

Edit: I’m now on chrome beta like I’m sure many of you out there are, only com­plaint so far: Webkit is acid3 com­pli­ant, Chrome isn’t. It’s extremely fast in com­par­i­son to most other browsers, will be fun to see what this browser windws up as.

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