Google plugs PC power into cloud computing

Spreadsheets can’t sort data well, there are lags between mouse clicks and the program’s response, graphics look Mickey Mouse rather than lavish. But Google, among the most aggressive cloud computing advocates, is trying to address some of those shortcomings. The company has released experimental but still very much real software that brings in some of the power of the PC, where people often use Web applications. Google Native Client–first released in 2008 but updated with a new version is a browser plug-in for securely running computationally intense software downloaded from a Web site. Google released O3D, a plug-in that lets Web-based applications tap into a computer’s graphics chip, too.

Google has demonstrated Native Client by running the Quake first-person shooter video game and a fractal graphics explorer. The company conceives of it more as a helper for existing Web applications than as a full-fledged environment for creating and running programs, like Sun Microsystems’ Java, Adobe Systems’ Flash and Flex, or Microsoft’s Silverlight.When installing software through conventional means–from a CD-ROM or installation file you specifically choose to download, for example–you have control over what’s running natively on your computer. You’re the security gatekeeper. Overall, though, Mozilla and Google are more allies than rivals. Both want to advance Web application technology, and the main competition is a continuation of the status quo with its tall barrier between Web-based applications and native software.

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