Great analogy there “Microsoft Windows is a lonely dinosaur. And Google Chrome is a pack mammal” Irony is, back in 90s, Microsoft beat Apple because of the same reasons.

Also agree that MS Office, the cash cow of Microsoft, will be hit, although not too much as Enterprise is it’s biggest customer and I don’t see them embracing Google anytime soon.

Google wants to take all your apps and documents off the PC and load them into their servers on the internet.

Heady days are coming, because Microsoft Windows is a lonely dinosaur. And Google Chrome is a pack mammal.

I agree, OS is not going to become irrelevant anytime soon. For example, try streaming the FULL version of Photoshop across the internet and having it render out changes (not the framework that Adobe has put out with a You Tube front end for the amateur photographer but the Full version).

With time, desktop software will become more and more specialized in dealing with personal and memory intensive tasks, the rest we can safely assume will shift to the browser.

Indeed Chrome aims at making the OS irrelevant, and have the browser as the true virtual machine to run applications at the speed of OS native applications.

With more applications migrating to the clouds and browsers like Chrome and Firefox, Linux-powered netbooks are becoming more and more attractive.

Still, the OS wars will continue for a while too, as media intensive applications such as video/photo editing or media players will take some time before they can be run effectively on a browser, much less online.

Thanks for the kind words

I agree with you on Google Vision, problem is too much of world’s information resides in desktop applications (Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Project, Financials, Image/Video Editors and viewers etc) and Google wants to extend it’s reach to these forbidden areas with a browser that acts more like an OS along with Google Gears to keep the info on the desktop to take care of privacy, security and outage issues.

Just like my take on iPhone Killer, Chrome Killer will not be a browser, because Google’s developing an ecosystem with Chrome, Android and Open Social. I would expect some more strategic roll outs to complete the gameplan.

I’m sure Microsoft and Apple are having nightmares Microsoft stands to lose way more though

Google’s mission is still: “[...] to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful,” and this to me seems like another step in that battle, which is really a war against no one in particular.

By releasing a browser that is really more of a web app interface by design, Google encourages information to flow through its systems. It, by definitition, organizes information and makes it accessible to its users.

If Google Docs, Spreadsheets, etc are more accessible and seamless to use no matter what platform an end user selects, they will see greater adoption.

Since information sharing is built into these applications, Google moves closer to success in “the mission”.

Microsoft has repeatedly declared war on Google, but Google seems to truck along with a general approach of ignoring Microsoft as a threat and delivering products that contribute to the fundamental mission.

Google didn’t set out to release an IE killer, or a FF killer, or a Windows killer. They set out to deliver an application that makes information more accessible.

How long will it be before Microsoft or someone starts developing the “Chrome Killer?” Not long I imagine.

And I doubt Google will worry much.