The use of the web for almost anything and everything is one development in the world of computing services that has a profound change in our lives. Because of SAAS (or software as a service) there are multiple applications that have been popping up in the last couple of years – form corporate accounting to video editing. Now, we have the Google Chrome OS.

At the moment, Google is busy with their marketing efforts and viral communication by pushing out information about their new and much-hyped OS called Google Chrome. They even have a video that explains what GCOS can do to make the end user benefit from it. Basically, Google Chrome OS may be described as the older sibling of its Chrome Web browser. It is entirely based on the Web and has tabs to help you manage different applications. It also avoids hard disk storage for both cloud and flash storage.

Google Chrome OS was initially set for the netbook market – as it can run both ARM and x86 processors. Its code is open source, but it’s not a download which you install on your netbook. You can only get Google Chrome OS on devices that have been Google approved. Because of this, you will be sure that the Open Source Software community will do everything they can to support and proliferate the Chrome OS and make it part of every type of platform. There are also some issues that are answered by Google Chrome which cannot be dealt with in a Windows environment. One, the update of Windows is quite messy and many users hate dealing with it. The updates for Google Chrome OS are transparent and at the same time automatic so you always get the latest version every time you refresh it. And there is also a self-healing patch in Google Chrome OS in case it gets compromised or corrupted.

The success of Google Chrome OS definitely lies in the consumer market. Its simplified repair and maintenance as well as they heighten the brand awareness of Google. Because of this, the success rate of Google Chrome OS is at a close one hundred percent. True, the corporate market inroads for Google Chrome OS might be a bit slower – but the smaller markets will most probably pay a lot of attention to it given the fact that their infrastructure’s investments really rely on cheap computing – and this is where the new OS of Google will reign supreme. The enterprise marker will also embrace Google Chrome OS but only if there is user demand. It will most likely take the bigger IT markets to get a feel of the Chrome OS as soon as their employees start using it as well.

The Google Chrome OS is expected to be released sometime towards the latter part of 2010. The release event (which is yet to be defined by the company) will surely be the determining factor of how their consumers and the rest of the enterprise market will view personal computing.

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