Remember the little spiel I gave a while back about the Google Operating System coming soon to a computer near you? Well, more information has broken about the Chrome OS.For starters, Google will not be releasing it as a stand-alone OS, to be downloaded and installed on any machine. They have supposedly partnered with some netbook manufacturers and you'll be able to buy certain netbooks with Chrome already installed. So what's the big deal? In a word - speed. They're aiming for a cold boot to desktop speed of 7 seconds or less. Chrome OS netbooks will not have old fashioned mechanical hard disk drives - the OS will be stored on flash memory and everything else - and I do mean everything, will be stored on the internet.
All programs will be web-based, meaning you won’t have to install anything. Anti-virus software? Forget about it. By the way, this move is just the first step in what Google predicts is the wave of the future. The future is in the web. Google also predicts that native apps (programs stored on your computer that can only run on your type of computer) would be obsolete in the future.
This video summarizes the concept nicely.
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