Bu bir kehanet değil. Buna hakikaten inandığım için yazıyorum. Bir süredir dost meclislerinde gündeme getirdiğimiz bu bahsi artık yazılı olarak kayda geçirmenin vakti geldi. Vakti getiren ise Google’ın 1-2 yıl içerisinde tüm dünyada kullanıma sunacağı Chrome OS’un (Operating System, İşletim Sistemi) ilk sürümünü açık kaynak kodlu olarak yayınlaması.

Netbook adı verilen küçük dizüstü bilgisayarlar için tasarlanan bu işletim sistemi, Microsoft’un işletim sistemi yazılımı olan Windows’un ve bununla birlikte ofis yazılımlarının pabucunu dama atacak. Netbook için hazırlanan işletim sistemi bu kadar güçlenebilir mi? Evet güçlenecek, mobil internet artık her yere, her çantaya girecek. Ekonomik olması yönüyle de laptopların da devri kapanacak. 1 kilodan hafif ve internetle ilgili her işi yapmaya imkân sağlayan netbooklar varken 3 kilodan ağır, ve 14-15 boyutlarında bir laptopu taşımayı kim ister ki?

(Microsoft’un batış ya da büzülme süreciyle ilgili yazılara ara ara devam edeceğim. Bu tezimi güçlendiren bir çok sebep var çünkü…)

Chrome OS’un ne olduğunu anlatan reklam filmini mutlaka izleyin!

Chrome OS adı verilen işletim sistemiyle ilgili bugün yayınlanan bazı notları da ekleyelim:

Google’s Strange and Shiny New OS

Google is kicking its way into the operating system world with Chrome OS, an open source system that works almost entirely online. It says Chrome OS cuts down on things like malware and data loss, though privacy and Internet access may become issues. Meanwhile, “Modern Warfare 2″ exploded, Psystar’s legal defense imploded and Verizon’s lawyers unloaded.

Google (Nasdaq: GOOG) just keeps invading new territories, and its latest target is your computer’s operating system. It’s officially released the open source code for its Chrome OS, an operating system that will turn up in third-party vendors’ netbooks. Those devices should start selling next year.

With Chrome, Google takes a very different approach than major OSes like Windows, Mac OS, or even most Linux distributions. It’s sort of like what would happen if an Ubuntu mated with a Firefox. It’s basically a browser that does not run on an operating system — it is an operating system. All its apps are Web apps, and all the data you save using it is stored in the cloud, in a state of statelessness, as Google puts it. Very little data is actually saved on the computer’s hard drive.

The advantage, as Google describes it, is that boot-up times are extremely quick. Security is also easier to handle. If you aren’t hosting any data yourself, you also aren’t hosting any malware. Finally, if someone steals your Chrome netbook, and your password is nice and safe, then you’ll be able to reclaim all your data and settings simply by signing on to another Chrome netbook — which you’ll have to buy, of course, but some data’s worth more than a few hundred bucks.

The disadvantage is that a Chrome netbook probably can’t do a whole lot if you don’t have Web access. Then there’s the matter of privacy, with all your data stored on someone else’s servers.

Either way, Google doesn’t seem to be saying that Chrome is where you should live all the time. It’s described the first batch of netbooks arriving next year as companion devices, so that thirty-pound Mac Pro of yours in the basement doesn’t have much to worry about just yet.
http://www.technewsworld.com/story/Googles-Strange-and-Shiny-New-OS-68707.html