Chrome OS: The Next Big Thing or Not?

After Google unveiled its Chrome OS, many alternating headlines came to the scene. Some says that Chrome OS faces serious risk of failure, while other thinks that the new operating system will succeed. So what will it be?

As Jason Perlow — a technology blogger at ZDnet — puts it: “If you know how to use a browser you pretty much already know how to use Chrome OS.” If you are using Chrome on your chosen OS, then there’s not really any transition to operating system. With Chrome OS, the browser is the operating system. So in one way or another, the Chrome OS will succeed. But if you asked whether the world is ready for it, that is another issue.

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