Google adds yet another egg to its basket of acquisitions. The latest being California based Green Border which it acquired on the 11^th of May for an undisclosed amount. “GreenBorder creates a protected environment on your computer. Any type of activity and interaction, while you are on the Internet, will be directed to the protected environment. For instance, if you go to a website that is trying to maliciously infest your PC with malware, GreenBorder will keep the malware contained to the protected environment and simply discards it at the end of the session”

While many are speculating this to be a move towards establishing it’s own desktop antivirus, I believe Google has much bigger plans. Given what we know, or assume that Google’s OS will be a Linux Live CD with a built in browser with all apps working on top of that (think Docs, Spreadsheets, Calender); the “protected environment” will actually serve as an online defence mechanism. The browser bundled with the distro will have GreenBorder built right into it confirming to the ‘all apps be web based’ structure.

While the speculations may never come true, one thing we can almost be sure about is that the GreenBorder services will become free. And anything free can never be bad, right ?

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