Thursday, August 18, 2011

The Cloud is Coming: Enter Google Chromebook


There has been a storm brewing on the Internet and it seems like no matter where you look, the cloud looms.

Cloud computing has been heralded as the future by many tech types, but aside from a few services utilizing the technology, there aren’t many experiences out there that take the idea of the cloud to its limit. In that sense, Chromebook is certainly a glimpse into the future.
Simply put, Chromebook is the Internet and nothing but. Google’s philosophy is pretty simple: most of the time spent on computers is on the Internet, and once all our data is stored in the cloud, everything we need will be accessible on the web. So why be bogged down by an operating system when the Internet is what you want, anyway?
Chromebook wants users to move away from storing data locally on personal hard drives and instead upload everything to the cloud. Rather than open up a media program to listen to your Foghat MP3s, they will have been uploaded to Google Music and are available on any device that can log into a Google account.

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