{"id":76,"date":"2009-07-15T01:55:18","date_gmt":"2009-07-15T06:55:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allegedlyinteresting.com\/?p=76"},"modified":"2009-07-15T01:55:18","modified_gmt":"2009-07-15T06:55:18","slug":"harbinger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allegedlyinteresting.com\/?p=76","title":{"rendered":"Harbinger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, evidently Google are producing an <a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2009\/07\/introducing-google-chrome-os.html\">Operating System<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smv-design.com\/smv_images\/smv_illustrations\/end_is_nigh.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/allegedlyinteresting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/end_is_nigh-219x300.jpg\" alt=\"The end is NIGH\" title=\"The end is NIGH\" width=\"219\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-78\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Just to be clear, the blog post linked above is the single only communique released by Google about the Google Chrome OS (Edit: they also produced a short <a href=\"http:\/\/chrome.blogspot.com\/2009\/07\/google-chrome-os-faq.html\">FAQ<\/a>). If you couldn&#8217;t be bothered reading it, here&#8217;s the short version:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nGoogle: <em>So, we&#8217;re totally going to make an OS. It&#8217;ll be small, lightweight and run on netbooks. It will be open-sourced. It will come out in 2010.<\/em><br \/>\nInternet:<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/allegedlyinteresting.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/07\/Big_Explosion.jpgD0C9DC22-8CA7-4363-90A9AC176C77FB73.jpgLarge-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"Big_Explosion.jpgD0C9DC22-8CA7-4363-90A9AC176C77FB73.jpgLarge\" title=\"Big_Explosion.jpgD0C9DC22-8CA7-4363-90A9AC176C77FB73.jpgLarge\" width=\"150\" height=\"112.5\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-97\" \/>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Evidently, denizens of the Intertubes have taken this as some sort of <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2009\/07\/07\/google-chrome-operating-system\/\">dark<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/tech.slashdot.org\/story\/09\/07\/13\/157227\/Microsoft-Vs-Google-mdash-Mutually-Assured-Destruction?from=rss\">portent<\/a>. A veritable four-horsemen-rated augury.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my take:<br \/>\nCalm the hell down. Google have made mention of a possible OS in a blog post. It won&#8217;t be out for <em>at least<\/em> a year. It will be aimed squarely at the netbook market. Your precious Windows licences won&#8217;t all of a sudden become worthless as Microsoft fall off of the bottom of the stock exchange. You&#8217;re going to be ok, now breathe in and out and in again. Ok, keep that going, I&#8217;m just going to get us each a cup of tea. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, evidently Google are producing an Operating System. Just to be clear, the blog post linked above is the single only communique released by Google about the Google Chrome OS (Edit: they also produced a short FAQ). If you couldn&#8217;t be bothered reading it, here&#8217;s the short version: Google: So, we&#8217;re totally going to make &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/allegedlyinteresting.com\/?p=76\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Harbinger&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allegedlyinteresting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allegedlyinteresting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allegedlyinteresting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allegedlyinteresting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allegedlyinteresting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/allegedlyinteresting.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allegedlyinteresting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allegedlyinteresting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allegedlyinteresting.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}