Wich Operating System do you use?

From the begining of the computing we have the chance of choose the Operating System (OS from now on) that is running on our computer. Most likely people trends to use Microsoft XXXX because by default it is installed on their computers, which from my point of view it is a very bad practise from the computer manufacturers because they would give the option to choose this or this other OS that I like. But any way, that is a different story than the one I am targeting today.

In the options that we have also there is GNU/Linux and all the range of different distributions within this OS. Therefore we can choose  the distribution we like because we are more use to it or the one that fits better in our computer or that that has been developed for an specific task that we want to do…

Our third main option is Mac OX for the one that have Apple computers and that people say that when you try this one it is difficult to go back to a normal pc… Well my experience with this system is great and I wouldn’t go back to Windows but GNU/Linux is there.

Each of this three OS has it’s owns pros and cons as in therms of stability, usability, GUI, compatibility… You can read more about this topic in this article of CIO.

However I can see the “new” OS that you, me, us are running and using every day and that it is totaly independent of the one that ir running on your computer and that may be you won’t use it anymore in this last years and that we won’t use anymore going back to the old dummy terminals that were connected to a mainframe. You might figure out by this time what I am talking about, I am after all the services that the big companies over internet are providing to the user. How many of you are using all the google stuf? (google mail, google reader, google docs, blogger, the search engine of course) But not only google, Microsoft has all his enviroment under the name of MS Live that contains more or less the same services as iGoogle. I am saying that because more often when you see the screen of a computer you only see a browser running with several tabs open or serveral windows of the server there, but not more than that, so basically we are running and using Google OS with its services, Microsoft OS with its, Yahoo…

Have you ever notice this? This was planned a long time ago, but now at days it is more explicit than it was before thanks to the popularity of clowd computing, the appearance of the netbooks and the evoluton of cellphones and fast comunications by the new mobile networks.