Chrome OS update on twitter

The title of this post might seem a weird combination but that’s how you can sum up the last two weeks on technology world. The technology world, that average people like me gets involved for their daily activities.

First it was the launch of Google’s operating system, Chrome OS, another out of the world, free product from Google. Even before people like me could understand what Chrome OS is, almost entire media termed as the real threat to Microsoft Windows. It would not be difficult to even get the data from stock market to see how it affected the stock prices of Google and Microsoft. On a random basis, after every 10 articles boldly promulgating the end of Microsoft dominance; one could see an article saying “not so fast” on this analysis. The new OS was heralded as the latest revolution where a whole OS could be based on browser utilizing cloud services for all the desktop apps, e.g. Word processor and spread sheets. Google had indeed dropped “mother of bombs on Microsoft”

A week later after getting world’s update on Twitter, there was an update about Twitter itself. So the world had update on Twitter’s business model, how it wishes to reach the target of 1 billion users and other assorted strategies. It happened cause someone from Europe hacked into the email account of one of the Twitter employee and got access to all the documents that were kept on the same cloud environment courtesy Google. The anatomy of this operation is minutely detailed on web. One password was all that was required to get into this revolutionary concept, the same concept that is going to be part of Google’s Chrome OS. So much for being threat to Microsoft. It took just one week !

I don’t know which corporate would trust its documents by way of word processor, or spread sheets to be kept on Google’s servers. Extrapolate this to every other document and you get an OS based on Cloud Computing.

Microsoft is not only about technology, it is much more than just a tech giant.