Weekly Written Analysis 3

Google is the household name product used by millions when performing web searches. Now they plan to expand their product services and create a new operating system founded off the Linux system, and place it on the market, which is already dominated by Microsoft and Apple Mac operating systems. The new system is called Chrome OS (open source), which is based off there new browser called Google Chrome for the web that has been recently unveiled, The twist is Google is putting a GUI (graphic user interface) to the already existing Linux, which is the alternate version of DOS for Windows and Apple Mac.
This article is about Google’s unveiling of their new Chrome OS (open source) operating system. Moreover, the new operating system will not be available until 2010 and only on laptops at first. In addition, to the new operating system Google has just released its new web browser called Google Chrome to operate on there new operating system and it is also adaptable to Mac and windows system as well. However, with Google, placing this open source operating system on the market there is likely not going to be a fee, which means Google will create low competitive pricing in a Microsoft and Mac dominated market base. Since the Google’s revenues is generated from another source, which is online advertising. In addition, analysts are saying that the new operating system will increase the competition between Microsoft and Apple Mac. However, this is no obstacle to Microsoft and its plan to release its new operating system Windows 7 sometime in October.
However, is Google’s new software going to be the future of computing or just another operating system? Will its popularity catch like the open source web browser Firefox created by Mozilla or be lost in the unveiling of Windows 7?


References
Brockman, J. (July 9, 2009). Google Looks To Web For Future Of Computing. NPR.org Web Site. Retrieved July 12, 2009, from npr.org Web site: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106423277