I am currently preparing a short post on interoperability but decided to make a diversion today following the release of details regarding Google’s new operating system, Chrome OS.

Basically, the question in the title says it all, do we need a new OS? We already have Windows (in its various flavours) which is widely used in schools across the country. We also have MAC OS, which has recently been updated and there are the various distibutions of Linux. Add to these the multitude of operating systems for mobile phones and handheld devices (iphone, Windows Mobile, Android…) and you can see that there are a whole welter of operating systems out there being used and most are incompatible with each other. So do we really need another OS?

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