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Google made it official by announcing their new operating system, Chrome OS, in their Google blog. After coming up with Chrome, the light weight browser it is only logical to develop your own operating system to wrap up everything. Chrome is suppose to be the platform for all the Cloud services Google offers, namely, Gmail, Google Docs and the bread and butter of this behemoth, Google search. This operating system will enable netbooks to boot up instantly and shutdown merely by closing the lid down. No more hibernation nor standbys. Boot up time is less than ten seconds. Users are connected to the web immediately. Most applications are going to be living in remote servers, in the Cloud as a service. Some users will opt to store their data also in the Cloud and not in their local hard drives. Even Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, started a Cloud service they're calling Ubuntu One. The future of computing is in the clouds.

Google wants to lead that future by putting their own operating system in your netbooks where their cloud services wont have compatibility issues. I still believe that most of my personal computing will happen in my local machine. Most developers are making their applications with the pc hard drive as home. Perhaps most compelling would be if these cloud services passes the standards of the enterprise. The benefits of cloud computing is hard to ignore. My desktop, everywhere, free applications, free limited and secure storage. We don't even need to connect to the web all the time. Google has pioneered google gears offline mode. You can still work offline and just synchronize your files when the connection is back.

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