I was amazed to see a strongly negative report on the Chrome OS from Google on LinuxWorld. TFA is bogus. Thin clients are 10% of PCs now and netbooks are catching up quickly. There is a huge space where a fast light OS that is web-centric would be right at home. Some people just do not embrace change and diversity in IT, just like the dinosaurs. The authour took the trouble to trot out a lot of smelly red herrings like device compatibility and a need for local apps (which increase costs and reduce performance for no reasonable benefit) which have not been important for years now. We stream everything here. Where do these guys come from? Why don’t they go away and let us enjoy IT in peace?
Google is a household word. People have loved it from the beginning. It is growing. Anything with a Google brand will move fast especially if it is good for the purposes of the young mobile folks. Using both local apps and a browser is very inefficient. The sooner we can do everything with the browser, the better. That will be about 2010 by my reckoning.
