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Chrome OS

While I have no intentions of making any sort of switch to the forthcoming Google Chrome OS I am rather curious to see what new and innovative ways they try to reinvent the wheel. That being said, I was rather excited to read this long summary of the Chrome OS Event in which many of the details of the operating system came to light a little bit more. Maybe it's my own preconceived notions getting in the way but I was little bummed to discover that the OS is intended exclusively for Netbooks and the company has no intentions of it being anyone's main computer - as the processing power won't be present for any of the heavy lifting on bigger projects. With all that in mind I did find this intriguing:

In Chrome OS every application is a web application. There are no native applications. That gives us simplicity. It’s just a browser with a few modifications. And all data is Chrome OS is in the cloud. This is key, we want all of personal computing to work this way. If you lose your machine, you just get a new one, and it works. With security, because everything is a web app, we can do different things. No system is ever fully secure. With Chrome OS no user install binaries, so we can see bad things easier. We run completely inside the browser security model.

Love the idea of all data being stored in the cloud but don't love the idea of everything being run inside of Chrome.. not sure why but that just goes against everything I know of computing. I guess they really are already changing the way most think about computing.