announcement == overhyping?? http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/introducing-google-chrome-os.html
>From reading the announcement (not the "every operating system has viruses" rant linked in the original post), Google's aim is to bring operating systems the next step forward. It's clear that we're way past due for that. Windows has set the bar for two decades now, and that bar is holding us back now. We should have applications that are agnostic about their underlying operating system, aware of location, and able to scale between different types of interface technology. Microsoft has had research into this area, but it's clear that they aren't ready for the next step as a company. The first concepts of Windows 7 were supposed to be that next step, but it turns out to be not much more than a service pack for Vista. I don't think Google is making the great claims that people are attributing them to. I think they're saying "dammit, it's time for a new paradigm, and we were really hoping that it was going to happen by now. It hasn't, so we might as well take a crack at it". I personally hope that this is finally the gateway operating system to a new shift to a world where applications and information live in the internet and devices are just handy ways of accessing that information. I envision a world where computing devices (laptops, desktops, handhelds, kiosks, implants) are all just gateways to the connected world. People will just use the right tool for the job depending on their location and the task at hand. We've had baby steps in that direction for the past 10 years, but we're [past] due for a quantifiable jump. -Tim On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Dustin Puryear <dpury...@puryear-it.com>wrote: > I did read it f00l. :) > > I think there is some overhyping here. Sorry, that's what I think. > > Now take that! > > ________________________________________ > From: general-boun...@brlug.net [mailto:general-boun...@brlug.net] On > Behalf Of SR > Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2009 5:09 PM > To: general@brlug.net > Subject: Re: [brlug-general] Not everybody thingks that Chrome OS is > goingto be all that great.. > > Dustin said: "Not everybody thingks that Chrome OS is going to be all that > great.." > > That's not at all what the article said. Please re-read the article and > try again. ;-) > > -Shannon > On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 1:58 PM, Dustin Puryear <dpury...@puryear-it.com> > wrote: > Bruce Schneier for one.. > > http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/security_guru_calls_chrome_oss_secu > rity_claims_idiotic.php<http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/security_guru_calls_chrome_oss_secu%0Arity_claims_idiotic.php> > > -- > Dustin Puryear > President and Sr. Consultant > Puryear Information Technology, LLC > 225-706-8414 x112 > http://www.puryear-it.com > > Author, "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers" > http://www.puryear-it.com/pubs/linux-unix-best-practices/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General@brlug.net > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General@brlug.net > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net >
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