November 25, 2009 by Jenny Sanderson
Since the release of Chrome OS earlier this week, Google have begun heavily promoting their new product to the masses. The key, some would say only, point they’re making thus far is that Chrome OS is a ‘seven second wonder’, i.e., it boots in 7 seconds or less which, as any PC owner will tell you is one hell of a selling point. To be fair to PC operating systems like Windows, it’s not exactly a fair test, seeing as Chrome OS is really just a very fancy web browser, in that all applications etc., are web based, and therefore contained within the ‘cloud’ and not taking up space on your PC.
Microsoft has come back on the attack, using its considerable marketing clout to point out to anyone and everyone that customers are already making very appreciative noises about Windows 7, load times notwithstanding and people are unlikely to want to change something they’ve been using for years.
They may well be right… For now. Truth be told, this argument is a little bit premature, Chrome OS is not even supported on all systems yet and may not be for a while, also people probably aren’t yet ready to fully make the shift to cloud computing. But still, be warned, the times they are changing.
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