Everyone knows that when they hear “tech news” it is going to somehow be related to or compared against search engine and advertising giant Google. Google has become more than a common household name. Google is most traditionally used as a noun. Nouns are most simply classified as persons, places, or things and Google is the last one or the last two (for now). However, Google has quickly expanded into a verb as well.
How many times a day are you stuck trying to remember something and just say “Oh forget it, I’ll just Google it!” Or you are speaking with a friend about who was on the cover of Madden 2007 and you can’t recall. “Oh man, I can’t believe I don’t know that! I am Googling that as soon as I get to a computer.” I can even one up that one. You and a friend are arguing over the release date of an upcoming movie while driving on I-95 stuck in bumper to bumper traffic; “Dude, I know you are wrong! I am Googling that right now on my sweet new Blackberry!” The giant known as Google had become a part of everyday speech as a noun and a verb. I am slightly surprised that Googling is currently underlined as a misspelled word right now. How could that not be in the dictionary yet?? Give it a month or two.
But back to the topic here: Tech news and Google. Same sentence. What’s the buzz this time? Google, late on Tuesday night, said that it plans on releasing its own OS. For less tech savvy people this not a new flavor of Ocean Spray fruit juice, but a computer’s Operating System. That’s right, Google is creating its own OS. Starting as a new search engine it overthrew every competitor in its way. Then it went to online advertising. After that it has demolished all competition in Maps, directions, videos (heard of YouTube anyone), shopping news, and of course email are all in a day’s work for the people at Google. Then they came out with their own web browser Google Chrome. And with Chrome, light bulbs went off; Chrome The Operating System. It sounds like a super uber awesome Transformer. Probably would have made the second movie better if there was a Google-bot. But then again it might take the excitement out, because we all know who would win. Mark my words though; Transformers III: The Rise of Googletron.
Okay, OS I know. Chrome OS. What’s the hype all about? First of all its free. That’s right, its FREE. Second, it is planning on competing with Microsoft Windows. This is no slouch system. Google doesn’t take the back seat to anyone. It’s go big or go home at Google. FREE and competing with Windows. That should be enough to turn heads. But there is more. Google is going to revolution the OS by making it extremely web focused. All the current OS’ predate the internet and Google believes that web browsing is at the heart of all computer use, so why not have an OS that runs like that. Using ‘Cloud Computing’ (if you don’t know what that is read the posting below this one for insight) Google will revolutionize the OS world creating a glorified Google docs system that allow you to store files and data in cyberspace and lets you access it from any computer. As Google unveils more stay tuned for updates. Or of course, we can always just Google it.
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