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Sundar Pichai, VP Product Management and Linus Upson, Engineering Director, Google: It's been an exciting nine months since we launched the Google Chrome browser. Already, over 30 million people use it regularly. We designed Google Chrome for people who live on the web — searching for information, checking email, catching up on the news, shopping or just staying in touch with friends. However, the operating systems that browsers run on were designed in an era where there was no web. So today, we're announcing a new project that's a natural extension of Google Chrome — the Google Chrome Operating System. It's our attempt to re-think what operating systems should be.
Oh, boy. An operating system that's small, fast-booting, and for a single application. What a concept.
Don't know how to react yet. Here's some random observations and thoughts:
The blog entry was posted on 7/07/2009 09:37:00 PM, why so late at night?
I got the news from an email alert from a traditional newspaper. Not on the web. Not from twitter or any blog posts.
The first question that comes to my mind after reading the blog is Who? I'm always infinitely more interested in that part of the question than anything else, as demonstrated here 1523 days ago.
I still have a PC operating system on three floppies. I run it inside qemu or VirtualBox
This is good news for the people who have to do tech support work for their relatives. Just tell them to press the hard reset button to put everything back to factory settings.
Who will announce the discovery of the first virus in the wild for GCOS? My bet is Symantec.
I want one!
Why?
Because it's Google. And it will be cool. A new windowing system, who wouldn't want that.
A new windowing system? We haven't had one of those for years. Does it support WS_OVERLAPPEDWINDOW?
Could it be a replay of the PC story all over again? You know, your young IT staffer yells at the PHB: "We should henceforth do all of our development for the GCOS. Look at me, I did my application in fifteen minutes."
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