Comments on: Our Unruly Chorus Rehearses: Gartner Mulls Google’s Chrome OS

By: The Blog Entry on Chrome: Hype Seed or a Nod to Formalism?

The Blog Entry on Chrome: Hype Seed or a Nod to Formalism? — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:01:26 +0000

[...] of my colleagues sort of threw up their hands at the Google announcement. (You can find a somewhat running summary of our thoughts, including many other blog posts, on an earlier posting fro… A First Take slouches toward publication as I write.) They felt, all but in unison, that a simple [...]

By: Whit Andrews

Whit Andrews — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 17:58:58 +0000

Thanks, Esteban. Could you upload a video to YouTube of you giggling like a high school girl?

By: Esteban Kolsky

Esteban Kolsky — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:40:12 +0000

The mere idea of a browser-as-an-os in a cloud world makes me giggle like a high-school girl coming down the stairs to meet her senior-year-date to the junior prom.

If, and the size of the IF cannot be measured today, this comes out as expected in 3-5 years (I agree with Ray who is, well — Ray) then we have a game-changer.

However, please note that despite the media’s crazy love for an OS-war (any war when you think about it) — this is nothing of the sorts. Unless we all ditch our macs and PCs (which it ain’t happening quite yet) and everything moves to the cloud (that should take longer than 5 years, I think), there is no comparison between OS.

I am just saying…

BTW, great summary of the minds of the Gartner elite…

By: Feedback Friday: Security Comments on All Those Other Gartner Blog Posts

Feedback Friday: Security Comments on All Those Other Gartner Blog Posts — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:56:48 +0000

[...] so a simple Google blog post about a Chrome OS caused all kinds of industry furor and oodles of Gartner analyst blog posts. If Chrome is designed as a “cloud” OS for mostly Netbook like devices with limited need for [...]

By: steveballmer

steveballmer — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:33:00 +0000

I had my people obtain (by means I cannot admit to) from the Google Labs a model of the new Google OS and even better than that, the platform they plan on running it on! It’s a radical new design slate computer! Sure enough it browses the internet, runs Google-Apps, has a task bar, prints and has a true chrome interface!
I will withhold judgement right now but I am not shaking in my boots over competition from this thing! I could be wrong, what do you guys think?

By: Christopher Marts

Christopher Marts — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 06:49:59 +0000

What is overlooked here is Linux. That is the Linux kernel. The Chrome OS will be built around it as Google itself said so. What’s new and innovative there? Essentially they are building a different GUI and pushing some faster booting technology through. Its already out there…its just been poorly utilized. HP already tested this with a quick boot system built on Linux so that users could watch movies without the Windows wait.