Google announces launch of their own operating system.

As we all know, Google started out as a Search Engine Service and has quickly become an unparalleled success, leaving other engines far behind it. But Google didn’t stop at that. Their web-based email service googlemail has quickly become an integral part of many people’s life, the operating system for mobile phones (Android) is challenging both Microsoft’s and Apple’s market shares and it has only been a matter of time, until Google now announced its own genuine operating system based on the late Google Chrome browser.

According to Google, the system will be open-source, light-weight and based around online activity. “Speed, simplicity and security are the key aspects of Google Chrome OS.” The interface will be minimal and intuitive, so as to “not get in the way”. In terms of security, Google wants to completely redesign the structures of its new operating system, in order to make infections by contemporary malware or viruses more unlikely, if not even impossible, since these programs are built to exploit security holes mainly in Microsoft and Apple’s software.

Looking at the development of the Google Empire, it is growing increasingly clear that the real market for anything software-related in the future, will be in web-centered applications. That the search engine giant now announces a whole web-centered OS is further proof of this. Microsoft, once an unchallenged (offline) monopoly of operating systems is challenged once again. Not only is Google’s search engine far more popular than MSN or Bing, but if the Google Chrome OS will fulfill its own promises, Microsoft will have to clamor even harder for their potential customers attention, than they’re already doing it.

Whether all of it just means that we exchange one monopoly with another, one thing is clear: The future is open-source and web-centered. The rest will unfold naturally around that.

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