Five Reasons why Google's Linux Chromebook is a Windows killer

When Google first started talking about Chrome OS, I thought it might be turn into a Windows killer. Well, now we know that the first commercial Chromebooks will be available in mid-June and there’s no question: Google is aiming right at the Windows business desktop market.


Can Google do what the Mac was never able to do? What the various desktop Linuxes, even the most popular ones like Ubuntu have never even come close to pulling off? I think it can. Here’s why.

1. Attractive business packaging and pricing
ZDNet Editor-in-Chief, Larry DIgnan, hit the nail on the head when he entitled his Chromebook overview: Google Chromebooks: Aimed directly at Microsoft’s PC upgrade cycle for $28 a month. Exactly so. For $28 a month you get a constantly updated operating system and, this is the killer part, Google will also automatically, with no extra charge update your Chromebook or ChromePC every three years.
Would you spend $28 a month for a PC that will never go out of date? I think I would.
What’s more important, I think a lot of businesses would as well. Indeed, many already are. Neil Levine, formerly Canonical’s VP of corporate services and founder of the new cloud analytics company Soba Labs, tells me that “Many Fortune 500 companies are already trying rent-a-laptop scenarios. It’s cheaper to throw away and replace than fix for many function.” With the Google Chrome OS model though you don’t even have to throw them away and if something goes wrong, Google will replace the dead unit.

2. Ease of use
Linux has a reputation for being hard to use. It’s non-deserved. We’re long, long way from the days when you needed to be a shell wizard to use Linux. That said, desktop Linux, whether you use KDE or GNOME, requires you to learn a new way of doing things no matter whether you come from Windows or Mac OS X. Even the new, easier-to-use Ubuntu Unity interface is quite a change from any other desktop.
With Chrome OS, though, well let me ask you a question: Can you use a Web browser? If the answer is yes-and if it’s not how are you reading this story!?–you can use Chrome OS. The interface is the Chrome Web browser and that’s it. There’s no need to learn anything new. If you know how to use a computer at all, you can use a Chromebook.


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Don't laugh, Chromebooks will likely seduce a lot of businesses

 

Most of the IT professionals I know scoff or snicker when I bring up the topic of Google Chrome OS. But, just as IT pros used to roundly dismiss the idea of cloud computing — and many of them are now climbing over each other to tout their cloud and virtualization expertise — it might not be long before IT also warms up to Chrome OS, out of necessity.

On Wednesday at Google I/O 2011, Google unveiled Chromebooks and the Chromebooks for Businessprogram. Google made a hard sell for its cloud-based PC platform and for the new business program that will allow businesses to rent Chromebooks for a low monthly cost per user.

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Is Microsoft in Point Blank?

                          With the launch of Chromebook it is clear beyound doubts that the google team is targeting the microsoft corporation;the most powerful opponent to them.

                         The move is Google's first directly onto Microsoft's home turf of PC operating systems and the Office suite software – a pair of monopolies that generate around $5bn of profits for the company every quarter. Until now it has largely avoided direct competition with Bill Gates company on its strongest areas, focusing instead on internet areas such as search and webmail and online document services.


                         PC sales have grown steadily over the past 15 years, with brief dips during the recession, but there are signs of slowdowns, especially in Europe and the US, among consumers. Businesses are Microsoft's most loyal customers. Google is aiming at such "enterprise" customers, too, with the suggestion that their data will be safer in the cloud than on a PC that could get lost or stolen.


                        The intention is that it will encourage people to spend more time on the internet – where they are more likely to use Google and so see or click on its adverts, because Google is the dominant provider of search adverts, with about 90% of world share.


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Major issues that could derail Google Chromebook

Major issues that could derail Google Chromebook

1. Timing

If it is as successful as the Chrome browser, the ChromeOS will enjoy a nice pickup in market share in no time. But its debut comes at an awkward moment,  when business users are beginning to make the leap from the netbook to the iPad or tablet. In the last month or so, I’ve heard numerous reports that corporate purchasing agents are putting in orders for Apple iPad 2s.  Even the Motorola Xoom — which runs Google’s other open source Linux OS, Android 3.0 — is getting a lot of attention because of its ultra portable form factor. Is the Chromebook a little late?

2. Mac Attack

Now a days Mac got pace in dominating the business computing world.Many billion dollar companies are going before IPads and Mac systems.Can the Chromebook or Android tablet, for that matter, curtail Apple’s rise in the business computing world?

3. Marketing Issues

Google is giving its users a choice between two open source operating systems — Android and ChromeOS.  But will this present a conflict for users — a fear of betting on the wrong horse? It’s hard to say at this point. I, for one, have a DroidX and am looking at the tablet as my next choice. Should I go with a Motorola Xoom or an Acer ChromeOS? This will be tricky for Google’s marketing arm.  Another point: If Google aims to go after the business market, it must sign up a Dell or IBM to launch Chromebooks.

4. Fragmentation Issues

I guess i can accept the fact that Google will open source Android 3.0 when it is ready.  But I wonder how Google intends to run that open source project — and this ChromeOS open source project — going forward. There are practical considerations that must be taken into account, especially the needs of device manufacturers. But Linux is Linux, and the rules of the GPL must be respected in order to maintain continued innovation and growth. Keeping developers happy is essential for the growth of Google-targeted applications and innovation on the OS front itself.  Linux backers applaud Google’s success, but their patience won’t last forever.

5. Quality issues

I love using my Droid and DroidX, particularly since both devices run the Android open source operating system. But I do run into quality snags here and there that my fellow iPhone users do not seem to experience. Sometimes the touch pad does not work properly. Sometimes the device starts dialing numbers wildly. Sometimes it takes a long time for the OS to load up. I have talked to analysts to determine whether these are my bads, but am told that these issues are well known to Google. These are major headaches and ones that Google must resolve quickly. Will these quality issues take a back seat as Google tries to build a ChromeOS following? Google’s focus on quality– for both Android and the ChromeOS —  will be paramount here, especially as Apple makes headway in the business market. Both operating systems must run spectacularly, and bugs and security holes must be fixed quickly. Google already has problems with one of those operating systems.

Why should I expect  these quality issues to disappear with two to support in house?

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Next Level of Computing

It's not a netbook, it's not a tablet, it's not a PC and it's definitely not the laptop as you know it. It's Google's latest attempt to take computing to the next level: It's the Chromebook.

Coming a good two years after the launch of the Chrome, this is the internet giant's latest swipe at Microsoft, on whose operating systems most of the world's computers run. The Chromebook, whose focus will be web browsing, wants to give you the power of the internet, like you've never experienced before. 

Google has said the new devices (to be manufactured by Acer and Samsung) will store everything online using cloud computing. This means no pesky hard drives to back up. The idea is also to enable users to walk up to any internet-connected computer to access their information. It also eliminates the need for software updates and because everything is stored in the air, it takes just a few seconds to boot up.

Essentially, this means that your laptop as you once knew it would now serve as little more than a display terminal connected to the internet and working with all this information that's up in the air.

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