Are Browsers Going to be Next OS?

Highly optimistic approach. Isn't? But if you'll try to think more about how Google is going, then with little effort you can easily make it out that later or sooner it is bound to replace all the desktop application. The journey started by launching desktop search couple of years ago. The future is that Google will enable web-browsers to replace OS (Operating Systems). It is still a distant dream but definitely one day we'll not install OS in our systems. At least, OS of heavy sizes, vulnerable to attacks, ready to crash by Microsoft will not be required. We might need a OS size of only a couple of hundred of MBs, which can run web-browsers. Rest of the work will be done by we-browsers and Google's other facilities.

Let's go one step further. There, we will not need to buy a hard disk because Google will provide may be a 1000 GB space. One more step and we will not be needed to install software in our system anymore. Let's take some examples. Google-docs can replace Microsoft office. To watch movies or listen music we do not need to install media players. Anti-virus for PCs will go away because nothing will be there in our local systems. All the data will be stored in Google storage where already the best people in the industry is trying to save the data from any attack. Online photoshop will grow rich with the features they'll provide. We already started playing games online. They are small, but with the kind of development happening these days in internet, do you really think that it will be hard to play games like Quake, AOE etc on internet. In fact AOE has provided infrastructure to play AOE online.

In the current era of changes at fast pace no one can really predict what's going to happen 10 years down the line. But surely as mobile and computers are merging day by day OS and web-browser can be merged and created as a single entity. The new era of Internet was already started long ago by Netscape but Google will take it to the new horizon and Microsoft with the policy of monopolies will die soon.

Please let me know as a comment what you think of the issue.