Chrome OS is Proof Google is Going to Take Over the World

For some time now, the prospect of an operating system released by Google has haunted the back corners of internet blogs, forums, and message boards. Google’s first step towards complete control of everything ever a Microsoft Windows competitor has finally arrived.

The idea of the new Chrome OS, which creatively borrows its name from Google’s current browser, is a slimmed down operating system designed for web usage. “The operating systems that browsers run on were designed in an era where there was no web,” was posted on the official Google Blog tuesday. The Google Crome Operating System is Google’s attempt to “re-think what operating systems should be”, while at the same time, taking over the internet.

Google promises to create a user interface dedicated to the internet. A near non-existant and simple GUI is intended to create a cloud computing experience. In other words, most of your computer will not actually be on your computer, but rather, on the massive collection of integrated servers and filesystems all over the internet, where your data will be stored among the online applications you use.

The OS is also planned to be highly secure and easy to use, so users do not need to worry about viruses or spend hours installing new hardware, which sounds like an OS that already exists is a good idea and is revolutionary.

While these features are interesting and makes for a solid sounding OS from Google, the stronger force behind the release of the OS is not the OS itself, but Google’s move into the market. For years, Google has controlled the internet’s search through searching while microsoft has toiled behind. But where Google did not venture, Microsoft retained majority of control over the OS market, well, until Vista anyway. Chrome OS could easily become a dent in Microsoft’s sales, but there are a few reasons why we should not be worried.

Google’s release for “Late 2010” will follow a year behind Microsoft’s Windows 7, its upcoming OS. While this gives Microsoft a head start, Windows 7 is also more versatile across any machine. Chrome OS for its first few years will be specifically created for netbooks, not desktops or performance laptops, until later. In this time period Microsoft will have enough time under their belts to set a solid Windows 7 foundation.

Another brick in the wall of defense for Microsoft is Google’s open source-ness. For personal use, open-source is easily the way to go. However, on a corporate and business level, open-source is forwned upon for individual use. The applications in the business world need to be standard, secure, and steady. If all of the cogs in the machine known as a company run different email clients, and their mail server shuts down one day, IT guys would be having a time trying to diagnose all the different scenarios. In the corporate world, Microsoft should still hold control.

Google also, in the past, has only been able to fully market their Search System. Think about it; how many people can you think of who use all of Google’s other web applications? Chrome, for example, has been successfull as a toy but a failure as a product because its barely advertised. Chrome is also just “played with” as an experiment away from Firefox or Internet Explorer; the seriousness is not there.

So should you be afraid of Google’s developing OS? No, don’t be too concerned. But should you be afraid of Google? Yes, yes you should No don’t be.