Doesn’t it seem like computers have always been around? Most of us, well the younger us, have grown up with computers and the web. We’ve learnt to grow and adapt with this technology and it’s a part of day to day life. When you look at your computer and I mean really look at it and what you use it for I’ll bet the majority of what you use it for is to access the web. In fact 90% of computer use if purely to access the internet. So when you look at it further and you think about the Internet you automatically think Google, it is the name in the Internet not matter how much noise Bing and Yahoo try to make, everyone associates the web with Google.
Not content with just being a search engine, Google decided to launch their own browser a couple of years ago and saw Chrome take on FireFox and Internet Explorer and even the most cynical would have to acknowledge their success. Next on their list of Internet domination was launching their own operating system which they announced back in the summer of 09. And this isn’t the first time they’ve made Microsoft sweat a little after the launched Google Docs to challenge their range of Office products. It will come as no shock that this new operating system will be totally cloud centric and use cloud storage rather than a physical hard drive. For large businesses adopting this OS this eliminates the need for data centers and this can have a massive potential to save lots of money.
So why have Google decided to implement this virtualization technology as the focal point of their operating system? The more innocent answer is that they’re Google and theoretically speaking they know the Internet better than anyone. Second of all they’ve established that the majority of us only use our computers to access the web anyway so it makes sense to cut all the other stuff out and get straight to what we’re after.