What I am thinking on the Chromium OS open source project

Official Google Blog: Releasing the Chromium OS open source project.

Google is now Microsoft in the past, when Microsoft was selling DOS to IBM.

I just watch few Chrome OS documents and videos, it is a larger plan then I thought before. If it happen in the way which Google is planning, there is a Web 3.0 revolution that ever important then the PC revolution.

PC will be a historical term, like Apple II.

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I watch also IE9 video yesterday, they are all doing the same - faster browser, faster Javscript, use GPU to speed up...etc, etc. However, IE9 will never beat Chrome OS as there are no anything to slow it down, in theory.

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DOS - Disk operating system,  Chrome OS - Web operating system.

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Microsoft is doing this - "keep your laptop/notebook connected to their cloud, and the company network ---- in order to deadly control them"

You can find these sign in Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2.
BitLocker, branchcache, group policy forced auto VPN connection...etc,etc

Fat OS, fat server, deep connection, tight control.
I bet half of system administrators will love these new feature.
(not the end user, as they cannot

Google is doing in another way - "nothing but a powered stateless workstation --- you cannot do too much offline"

Lightweight browser, internet depending, open source.
Not all company will like it, (but they will), but many heavy Internet and mobile user will.

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How about NativeClient ?

Think about it, something like Photoshop, AutoCAD, graphical designer, movie editing....etc

They might not do very well in HTML5 then that in PC.

But if there is a plug-in system which allow you to run full featured application. They don't read/write file from harddisk, but on WebDAV folders.

Chrome OS answer the question which people ask when Google release NativeClient --- why not just download the exe and execute?  Why reinvent ActiveX? Because you won't and not allowed on Chrome OS.

I just there will even some "Extension based on NativeClient"

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Back to Chrome OS, it take away unsuccessfully, and optimize it.

7 SECONDS from power on and boot to browser.

Why "HIBERNATE" !??  Why "SLEEP"?  to cut 7 seconds into 0.5  :-)

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Sandbox - application partition --- everybody know about it, if they have a iPhone.....Apple guy call it Jail.

File system encrypted by default - very reasonable for mobile devices .

They try to LIMIT supported hardware!!!!
Reasonable to keep limited number of driver support and stupid bad hardware problems.

Actually, if it run in google way, half of hardware building company will die.
Because nobody will buy a faster GPU card, cooler, super CPU, larger harddisk.... they will subscribe storage online.

Google Application Store!!

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Read more:

http://randle.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/google-chrome-os-revealed/