Today Micro Mart magazine published my Transparent Operating Systems feature article in issue 1125 (see the Sample PDFs page).
The seven page article investigates the requirement for streamlined application-centric operating systems, with a simplified yet familiar user interface, and an emphasis on ease of use, performance and security.
Some of the new operating systems based around this concept are evaluated and compared, including the open source projects Google Chromium, Intel/Nokia MeeGo, HP/Palm WebOS and Google Android, plus Apple's proprietary iOS.