Bye-Bye Windows: Google Chrome OS

ArtWilliams · 2009-07-12, 01:08 PM

I've been meaning to give my 2 cents.

With cloud computing your data ends up on the servers of Google, MS or whatever service you use. Do you really want to sign away rights to one of these companies to hold your precious emails, spreadsheets and word processing files? What is their liability if they delete them? Will there be effective backup mechanisms? What about privacy?

Chrome OS viability depends on wide spread, high speed connectivity to the Net because the apps are server based. If you're outside an urban area of the developed world and depend on dial-up or lite cable modem Internet access then Chrome will not be an option. Like Bill Gates who predicted us all using electronic wallets at the turn of the last century, I think that a successful cloudcentric OS is many years away. I say this even though I am a big Open Source supporter and a Ubuntu user who really wants to see a Linux desktop succeed. At best, Google Chrome OS will take away a tiny bit of the netbook market that is currently occupied by Windows XP.

2009-07-12, 01:08 PM	#9
ArtWilliams You can now put whatever you want in this space :) Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Toronto, Canada Posts: 6,244	I've been meaning to give my 2 cents. With cloud computing your data ends up on the servers of Google, MS or whatever service you use. Do you really want to sign away rights to one of these companies to hold your precious emails, spreadsheets and word processing files? What is their liability if they delete them? Will there be effective backup mechanisms? What about privacy? Chrome OS viability depends on wide spread, high speed connectivity to the Net because the apps are server based. If you're outside an urban area of the developed world and depend on dial-up or lite cable modem Internet access then Chrome will not be an option. Like Bill Gates who predicted us all using electronic wallets at the turn of the last century, I think that a successful cloudcentric OS is many years away. I say this even though I am a big Open Source supporter and a Ubuntu user who really wants to see a Linux desktop succeed. At best, Google Chrome OS will take away a tiny bit of the netbook market that is currently occupied by Windows XP.