Google is getting a ho-hum reaction from the IT world following last week’s release of the Chrome OS, its attempt at an operating system designed for cloud-based applications and contender to the Microsoft desktop crown.
Critics and skeptics, however, have labeled Chrome with such tarnishing descriptors as dull, uninspired, lackluster and ne’er-do-well. Microsoft has issued statements calling Chrome a poor competitor to Windows 7 (it’s comeback effort following the disastrous Vista), and Microsoft maven Mary-Jo Foley has likened the Google OS to Microsoft’s Silverlight, the platform designed to make apps run better on the Web. Gartner tells eWeek that enterprise adoption of Chrome is at least 10 years in the offing.
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Google Chrome is being dismissed by competitors and analysts, but it may just be the official beginning of the cloud computing era by freeing users from big, heavy PCs and operating systems.
Google is getting a ho-hum reaction from the IT world following last week’s release of the Chrome OS, its attempt at an operating system designed for cloud-based applications and contender to the Microsoft desktop crown.
Critics and skeptics, however, have labeled Chrome with such tarnishing descriptors as dull, uninspired, lackluster and ne’er-do-well. Microsoft has issued statements calling Chrome a poor competitor to Windows 7 (it’s comeback effort following the disastrous Vista), and Microsoft maven Mary-Jo Foley has likened the Google OS to Microsoft’s Silverlight, the platform designed to make apps run better on the Web. Gartner tells eWeek that enterprise adoption of Chrome is at least 10 years in the offing.
Google Chrome is being dismissed by competitors and analysts, but it may just be the official beginning of the cloud computing era by freeing users from big, heavy PCs and operating systems.