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Take a first look on Chromium OS the open source project by Google. This is a devel­oper copy so it wasn’t really a work­ing copy, not on my machine for sure.

I just want to take a look at the UI and the idea around the OS.

If the pro­gram we use on a day to day basis open as fast and flex­i­ble as much, and cloud com­put­ing or so Chromium OS can replace or offer total solu­tion… it’s not a bad idea.

This is an oper­at­ing sys­tem in a web browser make real… you could start as fast as you switch on your DVD player or MP3 player. You could access your apps as fast and with­out installing. You don’t need giga­byte of space to watch movie or lis­ten to music…

All you need is vir­tual disk space, high speed inter­net con­nec­tion and stay con­nected 24/7. Unfor­tu­nately that would be also the down­side of it.

Credit: Silvy for the copy. Tested on Win­dows 7 & Mac OSX

(Image source: http://infreemation.net/cloud-computing-linear-utility-or-complex-ecosystem/)

Cloud Com­put­ing sounds very tech­ni­cal and con­fus­ing for many. From con­sumer level, Cloud Com­put­ing will change how we use and access our com­put­ing needs in the future!

Google already had few apps online that you can test drive and expe­ri­ence how Cloud Com­put­ing will ben­e­fit you. Lets hope that this ser­vice will be free for use for long time, Stor­age needs will not be always free for sure! (Exam­ple Amazon)

I saw Microsoft Office 2010 on a teaser/trailer video last month, Imag­ine in the future you pay for MS Office soft­ware with­out need­ing full instal­la­tion on your local hard disk! That’s should equally be very inter­est­ing

The most painstak­ing process in new sys­tem build­ing is installing appli­ca­tion soft­ware and look for the suit­able dri­vers. I’ve just install Win­dows 7 RC on my new replace­ment moth­er­board. In just few min­utes, I have got my Email, word pro­cess­ing, spy­ware scan­ner, virus scan­ner, photo web album and etc ready for use!

Win­dows 7 Task Bar. As you can see, basic com­put­ing needs is all there for free and ready for use.

All these made pos­si­ble with one sin­gle installer, the Google Updater. Very convenience!

Pic­ture: Google Docs. The good thing about Cloud Com­put­ing is that you can access vir­tu­ally from any mobile devices that has access to the internet!

Cloud Com­put­ing = browser, No browser no cloud!

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. ~ google­blog

Google Chrome OS will ride the cloud full swing with net­book indefinitely!

Pic­ture: The Insp­iron Mini 12/ source http://apcmag.com

I am not sure If I will be own­ing a net­book with Google Chrome OS or with Win­dows 7 in the future but due to the nature of net­book was a low-powered com­put­ing, mak­ing it start up light­ning fast (like DVD, CD player) and access appli­ca­tion online in sec­ond does make whole lot of senses.

In my opin­ion, it’s still too early for an adop­tion. Aspect some incon­ve­nience in print­ing, pre­sen­ta­tion, viruses, pri­vacy and etc

In the end what I really aspect from cloud would be the con­ve­nience to access my data, appli­ca­tion, and com­plete my daily task with­out any has­sle from any devices.

(This one off topic) Matt Mul­len­weg have a very good voice!