Windows 7, Chrome, Twitter, and Droid make for another busy year in technology.

Chrome OS: Emperor's new clothes or paradigm shift?
Just about a month after the Windows 7 launch, Microsoft's archnemesis, Google, released its Chrome operating system to the open source community. Google said Chrome OS, due out in about a year, will be faster, simpler and more secure than existing OSes. It probably will be, because it does a lot less than current operating systems. Chrome OS runs only Web-based applications and will not even be able to run applications built for Google's own Android mobile OS. That, and the fact that peripherals for Chrome OS-based machines will have to comply with specific hardware reference designs, means that in no way can it be a replacement for current PC OSes. But that's the point. Computer users are spending more time accessing Web services and applications. Not many PC owners are ready to throw out their hard drives, but take-up of small, Net-centric devices will one day lead to a tipping point where the majority of users tap the Web for virtually all their computing needs.

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