Some more interesting thoughts on Google’s planned Chrome OS from CNet’s Rafe Needlman. Google says the OS will launch on new Linux netbooks in 2010 which will be fine with me. I use a ton of Google products these days so if Apple doesn’t get around to making something in that space like so many of us would like, then a Google machine might just fill the gap – and at about half the price!
Stay strong – public protests are not tea parties. Good column in today’s Sun from Stuart Hayward, encouraging anti-Brown protestors not to give up:
The PLP leaders are evidently highly troubled by the public reaction and response to their leader’s reckless smuggling of four Uighurs into the island.
Chief among things troubling them is the mobilisation of a couple of thousand citizens in less than two weeks of protests, a level of orderly public display not seen on this rock during my lifetime. And while Premier Brown may boast of having seen larger and louder demonstrations, never in memory has Bermuda seen a larger, more vocal and more orderly gathering than showed up to protest recently.
To have hundreds of citizens shouting slogans calling for the ouster of a sitting Premier is unprecedented. And for them to be doing this despite the implied threats from the Premier’s chief propagandists – who proclaimed a counter-demonstration in tones that suggested “outnumbering” and “overpowering” any protesters – demonstrates levels of solidarity and commitment not seen here for perhaps half a century or more.
Google is set to take cloud computing to a whole new level. As long rumoured, Google is planning to launch its own operating system, based on its Chrome broswer.
Google made the announcement on its blog on Tuesday night and says it be available for consumers in netbooks in the second half of 2010. The open source project will run on Linux under the hood but the applications will be web-based and run on any standards-based browser in Windows, Mac and Linux. Said Google:
“The operating systems that browsers run on were designed in an era where there was no Web … we’re announcing a new project that’s a natural extension of Google Chrome–the Google Chrome Operating System. It’s our attempt to rethink what operating systems should be.”
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