The Dolcera Blog

The Google Chrome OS announcement was greeted with plenty of interest by bloggers and mainstream media alike. The opinions vary, of course. The New York Times has a summary of the technology opinionators’ thoughts here.

The most interesting opinion — from all I’ve read so far — is that of John Gruber at Daring Fireball.He says that the Chrome OS sounds more like Palm’s new Web OS — a collection of HTML, CSS and Javascript with lots of APIs to access native applications.

From a software development perspective, this won’t be a very appetizing option, given that using AJAX etc. is painful enough already.

PS: Cringely has an excellent summary in the New York Times. About Google v Microsoft, he says -

…these companies will posture, spend a little money on research and development, and keep each other in check, while reporters and publications pretend that it matters.

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