Google Chrome Web Store

Whatever happened to Google OS or ChromeOS? I don’t see much of it mentioned anywhere.

However, who needs a new OS when you have the Chrome Browser? It runs on just about any platform and more importantly, it is tweaked to run things that Google would like to run: web based software.

There is no longer a need for a separate OS. Google Chrome browser is the Chrome OS: an operating system within your operating system.

You have all the productivity suite that comes with your desktop system: Google Apps, Calendar, GMail, Picasa and a whole slew of other online software that work so perfectly with Chrome.

If you want a hard copy, simply use Google Cloud Print.

Need apps? Check out the Google App Store. I have TweetDeck running on Chrome now instead of the AIR version and it’s looking pretty good.

If you want to take something on the go, use Google Chrome to Phone. I went to the new online Android Market today. Upon “buying” an app (it was free), it pushed it to my phone wirelessly.

Its loose offerings of web apps have come together and enhance by Chrome. With the browser, you can even get desktop notifications for your Google, and perhaps other, applications. You can even drag and drop files from your desktop right into gmail as attachments. Chrome enables web based application development with desktop like interaction.

Google managed to create a whole Google OS that you can run on your own desktop via the browser. It can run all but the most processor intensive apps I believe. It has a bit of a road ahead, given that the Chrome browser is an emulated “operating system”, but may eventually run applications like Photoshop.

You could buy the Mac, which tightly integrates the software, operating system and easily gets you on the go with your iPhone.

Or, you could use Google’s offerings, which although are still getting polished and very nicely I might add, on Windows, Mac, Linux or any other operating system.

I never realised how far along Google came until it just hit me today.

Facebook might have your social network that Google can’t seem to touch, but you could be running it – you could be running your entire digital life, on Google. Who needs a good social networking site then?