It's already nine months since Google launched its browser - Google Chrome. According to the estimations over 30 million people use the new browser on a regular basis. Google Chrome is targeted to people who spend more than the average time using the web for wide range of purposes - news updates, e-mails, chatting, searching for information or shopping.

Taking this success into account it is more than a natural step for the world's No1 search engine producers to take the opportunity and produce a new operating system, which would be a reflection of the development of the web. It is a fact that most operating systems were designed in a time when the web did not exist at all. So Google announced its intentions and thus they have the consumers' eyes on them once again. The project is for a lightweight operating system and it was also said that the producer is already talking to partners and have the intentions to use the ideas of the entire web-community. Now this is an approach, which shall definitely lead to a consumer-friendly product and the expectations would be very high. It is obvious that the first key for its success will be the simplicity, which shall be proven by minimal interface. The second key - the speed - is to be achieved by a fast and lightweight OS, which purpose shall be to get someone onto the web for just a second. The last important issue that Google Chrome would have to deal with is the security, which would be guaranteed by a newly designed underlying structure of the OS itself, so viruses, malware and security updates won't be a problem for the consumer anymore.

As Google announced - the software architecture shall be simple. It'll be Google Chrome running within a new windowing system on top of a Linux kernel. All applications based on working in the web will work automatically on Google Chrome OS as well as on any other standard browser on Linux, Windows and Mac.

In the mean time the company clarified that Google Chrome and Android are two totally separate products as the last one being purposed mainly for phones and netbooks, and the first targeted to power computers such as netbooks and full-size desktop systems.

It is reasonable to say that this entirely new product will appear thanks to Google's desire to expand more and more their products range and by this - their clients-base and market positions. Using the web as their own well-known tool to stay close to the consumer, Google manage to determine the current market needs and take advantage of its financial power, which helps the easy transition of every good idea into income-generating product. In the mean time Google is taking a huge challenge, because although they already showed their intentions to enter new markets by the introduction of the browser Google Chrome, they now step into a market, which has strong competition. Microsoft's Windows OS is enormously well-established on the market as everyone knows, so crossing swords with them is an interesting clash to witness and a hard challenge to be beaten. Let's hope it'll be the consumer who wins in the end.

With this article ONLINEHOWTO.net represents citation or only personal opinion of the author and don't targets advertising or discriminating any company, product, service, technology, inovation, etc.

Related Tags:

RECOMMENDED TUTORIALS