Molto rumore in rete sull’annuncio che Google rilascerà un sistema operativo per personal computer, andando ad invadere ancora più pesantentemente iul territorio già minato di Microsoft:
We’re announcing a new project that’s a natural extension of Google Chrome — the Google Chrome Operating System. It’s our attempt to re-think what operating systems should be. Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010.
The user interface is minimal to stay out of your way, and most of the user experience takes place on the web. And as we did for the Google Chrome browser, we are going back to the basics and completely redesigning the underlying security architecture of the OS so that users don’t have to deal with viruses, malware and security updates. It should just work.
The software architecture is simple — Google Chrome running within a new windowing system on top of a Linux kernel. For application developers, the web is the platform. All web-based applications will automatically work and new applications can be written using your favorite web technologies. And of course, these apps will run not only on Google Chrome OS, but on any standards-based browser on Windows, Mac and Linux thereby giving developers the largest user base of any platform.
We hear a lot from our users and their message is clear — computers need to get better. People want to get to their email instantly, without wasting time waiting for their computers to boot and browsers to start up. They want their computers to always run as fast as when they first bought them. They want their data to be accessible to them wherever they are and not have to worry about losing their computer or forgetting to back up files. Even more importantly, they don’t want to spend hours configuring their computers to work with every new piece of hardware, or have to worry about constant software updates. [dal blog ufficiale Google Chrome]
The software architecture is simple — Google Chrome running within a new windowing system on top of a Linux kernel. For application developers, the web is the platform. All web-based applications will automatically work and new applications can be written using your favorite web technologies. And of course, these apps will run not only on Google Chrome OS, but on any standards-based browser on Windows, Mac and Linux thereby giving developers the largest user base of any platform.
We hear a lot from our users and their message is clear — computers need to get better. People want to get to their email instantly, without wasting time waiting for their computers to boot and browsers to start up. They want their computers to always run as fast as when they first bought them. They want their data to be accessible to them wherever they are and not have to worry about losing their computer or forgetting to back up files. Even more importantly, they don’t want to spend hours configuring their computers to work with every new piece of hardware, or have to worry about constant software updates. [dal blog ufficiale Google Chrome]
L’ultimo paragrafo è un attacco diretto a Microsoft e a Windows OS. La gente – dice Google – non vuole perdere tempo aspettando che il computer e le applicazioni si avviino, non vuole che il computer rallenti dopo mesi di utilizzo, non vuole perdere file se perde o si gusta il computer, non vuole perdere ore per configurare il sistema ogni volta che c’è un nuovo hardware.
Google sterza, e lo fa decisamente: non aspettatevi un sistema operativo ‘alla Windows’, quanto piuttosto un’interfaccia che dia accesso via Web ad una serie di applicativi. Il browser per navigare, i documenti on line a sostituire Excel e Word, uno storage on line che abbia una copia dell’hard disk in remoto e così via. Una finestra sul mondo Web, dati sparsi su Internet e accessibili dal computer.
Due i temi da tenere sott’occhio: da un lato la sicurezza dei dati dall’altro l’idea – non necessariamente vera – che ovunque ci sia una connessione Internet disponibile. Sono certo che Google conosce esattamente questi aspetti, per cui aspettiamoci soluzioni efficaci anche su questo fronte.
Infine, una piccola nota di colore: secondo una twittata di Robert Scoble, Google ha fatto l’annuncio ieri per ‘dare fastidio’ ad un annuncio Microsoft che arriverà lunedì prossimo. Nella guerra tra P.R., anche questi trucchetti sono un segnale che le due aziende affilano le armi…
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