Welcome
Hi, welcome to my first blog. I will write about things that I find interesting and that might be interesting for others as well. To kick it off, I will start with a short article about the hype around the upcoming Google OS. The Goolge OS
I read various articles about the upcoming Google OS. The most annoying between them were the top 10's why a Google OS would fail or succeed. Since we don't know anything about the OS it all boils down to: it's Google *shine*, they do everything the new web-way, they said 'cloud' somewhere. Or on the more negative side arguments like: Linux failed so will everything else, they will never beat Microsoft, we already have everything, etc. etc.
Point is, all arguments have no real value, since you don't know what coming. If it's another improvement of what we already know as Linux, MacOS or Windows, it will fail, it might do some good on netbooks, but it will never become mainstream. You won't switch for something more or less equal, especially not an OS, and you are over 20 years behind with making more shiny versions of *nix, winNT or MacOS or whatever.
However, if it is something revolutionary new with an approach most of us never thought of, but by which you would typically say: "why didn't someone else thought of this", then it doesn't matter how mighty or how rich the common field players are, it will create a new era of computer-OS (you will still have to do all the marketing and stuff).
Will Google have it?
So bottom-line is, do you trust Google to have this brilliant idea? I don't know. They do have a lot of shareholders and stuff, but they are young enough to take great risks on a product they really believe in. Will they be able to take great risks in pushing the next big thing through?
They do have the right approach on looking at the web and they had come with great ideas before. However, they also tend to bring out stuff very early, leave it in beta for ages and they tend to forget to smoothen of the edges. GMail is great (probably the best free web-email-alternative), but it is no replacement for Outlook yet, also they try to sell it as a full replacement. Same is for Chrome and Google apps. They might just peak to early and no one will take another look when it's finished.
My advise to Google
So Google, this is my message, make it brilliant, don't come up with "another OS" and don't show us (free) crap that may have potentials but just isn't it.
I know it's possible, because they way currents operating systems work are flawed. That's not surprising because they are all based on 90's thinking (or even 70's). I will write next week about how I think a computer operating system should really work.
