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I’ve been pretty good about keeping a level head so far, Google. When you launched Android, I was excited to see an open(ish) smartphone operating system hit the market. I bought into the philosophy and believed you when you said it would drop the barrier between developers and the platform. Unlike with Apple, developers wouldn’t have to endlessly tweak their apps to vague and sometimes hidden guidelines in order to get a spot in the marketplace. But reality hasn’t quite panned out the way you hinted at a few years ago. And now you’re about to make it harder for customers to decide what product to buy.
Google Shows Cloud-Based Computing Immune to Ice, Fire and Gnomes
by Jonathan Strickland | December 10, 2010
Recently, Google held an event revealing more information about the Chrome OS. Unlike traditional operating systems, the Chrome OS is designed to be a thin client. User data doesn’t live on the computer — it’s in the cloud. That fact might scare off some users. After all, if your data is in the cloud, is it safe from prying eyes? And how secure is that data? Google’s response is that the data may be safer in their hands than on your computer.
Aha! Now I get it. I just read M.G. Siegler’s post over at TechCrunch, which explains Google‘s motive for announcing the Chrome OS on Tuesday. In case you missed that announcement, Jonathan wrote a nice post about it yesterday.
Siegler said that Microsoft has plans to announce its new cloud suite of Office software on Monday at the company’s Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans, La. Now, this isn’t set in stone. But Siegler is looking at hints dropped by Robert Scoble on his FriendFeed account. Apparently right after the Chrome OS announcement, Scoble started talking about Microsoft’s big news, saying that it involves one of the company’s biggest products, and that it’s not the new browser, Gazelle.
Oh, you don’t know what Gazelle is? It was getting some press the other day, too. Truth be told, it’s a bit Chrome-OS-like. In an article published Tuesday on CNET, Ina Fried interviewed Helen Wang, a researcher at Microsoft, about the new project.
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