Why Chrome OS will be a big time failure?

Leena - Are you suggesting commercial failure or total failure of the Chrome OS? I think you are referring to your overall experience with the product (customer experience)

Chrome OS does not have to be like MS Windows. I believe, there will be some differentiating features in the Chrome OS. For example; Chrome Browser is fast and stable. What if it is based upon Linux? Google has always provided innovation with existing and new technologies.  There were many search engines before Google started but they introduced Relevancy in the search.

I think, it is too early to predict the failure. Chrome OS will initially be targeted for Netbooks. We need to see how it is received and adopted there and then for other Hardware platforms.

I don't see any problem in Chrome OS being Open Source. Even Ubuntu is Open Source. We know; how we are benefited by some great Open Source technologies.

There are less people who work on Linux, and everybody knows how linux works, Chrome OS builds on Linus Torvald's popular open source foundation to create a lightweight, Web-oriented desktop environment. However, it also inherits that platform's many loopholes like the spotty hardware compatibility.

It's a move born of desperation to compete against Windows dominance. Google knows it can't possibly establish a viable hardware ecosystem and still meet its self-imposed release deadline of mid-2010. And with deadline coming near rather than they themselves doing the hard work of courting device vendors and building certification processes, Google is taking the easy way out by doing simple things like which systems will be allowed with the Chrome OS and then dumping responsibility for the rest of the world onto the open source community. And that will not be a good solution....and that is why Chrome OS will fail big time.

1. As the product is not into market, we just have the views. Actually no one have felt the product and reviewed.

2. I always support healthy competition, and not monopoly market.

3. Google's products are not that failed than Microsoft's products. Google till now have succeeded in all the domains they have stepped into, and hence they will succeed in this too. I am a very big fan of GOOGLE. Google's apps are much useful for me like (Google analytics, app mails, online docs, etc.) Still Microsoft have not even entered these areas. Have you people used this Google Swirl http://image-swirl.googlelabs.com/).

4. What are the comparison of Android and Windows mobile OS. This is a best shot of their production units.

Me always will support GOOGLE

-Yuva

Open source products lack reliability, support and continuity. Many products which keep cropping up are at the most good for hobbyists and vanishes after a short period of time. Corporates cannot adopt to products with short life span.

Core can be linux - but all functions to be performed by menu driven programs like windows. Does anyone remember typing scripts in windows to add a device or program!!

It was okay in 1970s.

The main problem is Google looks at the world through its Web page. So it comes as no surprise that the primary interface to the Chrome OS is Chrome, as in the Google browser. Unlike a traditional OS, there's no desktop, Sadly, none of the above UI is particularly original or that compelling that people will go for Chrome OS. The tabbed interface and dockable favorites are clearly derivative of Mac OS X or Windows. So pretty much clear that there is nothing new in this, the appreciable thing is the web content is lighterweight and easier to isolate from a security standpoint, and has some functionality like the system starts very fast I mean within 7 seconds.  So not much of an impressive portfolio's of Chrome OS. And pretty much these are the reasons why Chrome OS will fail big time. Would like to know what other reasons could be from the users..share your views guys..

chrome 'll fail to cover the market due to its weak adv. probaganda and backbone. at present market is stiff and with lot of better options and people does'nt seem to have time to experiment new os's, so they want to to stick to the regulars......