Google has finally tried to make a stab at Microsoft with a browser based OS, Chrome OS. The new Linux OS which is meant to be very light and fast is expected to be released at the end of 2010 however that could be a little to late to do any damage to Microsoft since Windows 7 will be out by then and it may have already dominated the Netbook market which to be frankly honest is the only place where the Google OS would work.

    The Google OS is mainly just a browser with web apps and this will mean that it will most likely be free. Nearly all of the software will use Google’s online services so they will make money from online advertising but this could cause a huge anti-trust legal battle in the EU and the US. The fines could be in the billions and I am not sure that just because the OS will be open source Google will be able to slide pass the obervant European Union.  Also if you have no internet connection you will not be able access all kinds of important emails or web based documents. This was shown when the Google servers were overloaded a month ago, prventing millions of being able to seatch the web or access their Gmail accounts. Microsoft’s approach is about using having all fo your files sitting locally on your machine but at the same time being able to access them anywhere in the world. Secondly it was Microsoft tht invented the cloud based OS anyway with their Windows Azure concept.

I am not sure that a Google OS would catch on, unless hardware manufactures bundled it as their primary OS and I don’t think that hardware companies will be putting it a brand

new OS that the public have

never even heard of on their best selling machines. People are used to Windows and they have been trained at the workplace to use Windows and from what I have seen the Google OS is quite different so I do think that it would take quite a while to catch on by at wgich point a lot of users will have bought a new PC with Windows 7 or will have purchased an upgrade so I think that timing will be essential if a Google operating system is going to be a sucess.

Microsoft has started edging further and further into Google’s share of the search market

which is the life blood of Google and the place where it gets almost all of it’s profit from. if Micorsoft can increase their market share consistently for the next 2 years Google’s revenues and profits will slide which means that it will not be able to fund the development of an operating system for both the desktop and mobile and host unprofitable services and projects such as YouTube.