Deep Jive Interests

You know, it figures 5 minutes after I pre-order Windows 7 (home premium, if you must wonder) off of Amazon.ca do I learn that Google OS is coming to netbooks far and yonder in the next few months.  Google’s own blog has the details, but its purpose is to allow people to use their netbooks in a way that netbooks were (perhaps) always intended — as small devices that were fast, accessible, internet aware, and free of the constraints of the agonizingly long 5 minute boot.  Its built on top of Linux, and allegedly will get folks on the net in seconds rather than minutes.

With the maturing of Google apps out of beta (just a few hours ago), and the announcement of Google’s own online OS just now, one wonders if the pieces are beginning to drop into place with respect to Google carving out its own niche — in earnest, this time — about the future of computing.  Sure, there’s always going to be a place for a desktop OS, just like there’s always going to be a place for desktop applications.  But in terms of The Future, one has to wonder where the proportion of where most people are going to spend there time — and productivity — lies.

I’ve written about the secret data centers and the dark fibre Google’s purchased over the years, and one wonders if this isn’t all part of one big plan that was conceived a long, long, time ago.

Today Google is about search.

Tomorrow … Google may allow others to own “Fun” (?)  and “Social” (Facebook? Twitter?) … but its pushing to own Productivity (of which search is only one part) on these interwebs.  Hopefully it’ll be as profitable as owning Productivity has been for Microsoft all of these years.