Google Chrome – OS in the Cloud? Not really….
Google’s has just announced the impending release of Chrome, a browser based on Webkit, but with many enhancements to supercharge web applications. The main interest seems to around a multi-threaded custom JavaScript virtual machine built to give you good stuff like garbage collection and true asynchronous processes.
Some of the less tech-savvy pundits on the web ( I love Ted Dziuba’s classy reply too! ) are saying it’s the beginning of the end for Windows and that Chrome represents a move towards Google dominating the OS space in the same manner they dominate the search space. You only have to look at problems Vista itself has with drivers and hardware compatibility, god knows how a browser will cope.
There’s no doubt, the OS will end up in the cloud sooner or later. If it’s Google owned, that remains to be seen. Microsoft’s domination in enterprise is going to take unfathomable effort on behalf of Google to try and make inroads as the project is essentially open source.
On another note though, as a long time JavaScript jockey, I’m looking forward to giving the new system a thorough going over. Multi-process JavaScript sounds simply fantastic! Have a look at the little overview that has been released.
Edit: It’s out and it’s very very good. A really intuative browsing experience but nothing approaching an OS….yet. Also, as you may have guessed – no Silverlight support !
November 3rd, 2008 at 6:46 pm
John
Do you take everything whatever MS feeds. Silverlight crashes run on FF3… Chrome is too new to handle.
November 3rd, 2008 at 7:53 pm
Sujay, hmmm maybe your irony radar is broken. Only a dimwit like yourself could possibly think I was serious when I mentioned no Silverlight support in a browser that was hours old. I’d thank you to stop making inane bumcloud contentless comments on my blog and suggest you work harder on your own valueless zero-interest ‘insights’. Do I take everything MS feeds? That should be obvious from my blog you halfbrain.