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- supakoopa, on 07/08/2009, -1/+11OH SNAP! This could end up being really good, I can see Google getting a lot of support from developers quickly. And being open source is great too.
Also, I wonder if Google Mail leaving Beta is somehow related to this. - DanH, on 07/08/2009, -3/+12You listening, Microsoft? :)
- stickypenguin, on 07/08/2009, -0/+8ahh our little google is growing up
- alexsabree, on 07/08/2009, -0/+498% of PC's are running Windows.
- Archon810, on 07/08/2009, -1/+3This should be interesting but it would take a LOT of effort and drive to get this OS rolling. There's already Windows and Linux that are also targeting netbooks, and Google will have to try real hard to get it off the ground. One thing is for sure - this can't be a bad thing.
Here's to open source! - damack, on 07/08/2009, -0/+2I'm personally looking forward to this a lot.
I just want a very simple streamlined operating system that: can use the internet, can play media with my VLC media player and Media player classic and download my torrents.
If an operating system can provide all of that in a simple package and for free it's a matter of time before everybody switches over.
People don't use their computers in general for much more than a handful of tasks so having to pay for expensive shiny operating systems is not going to work for very long. If an operating system can indeed boot up in seconds and allows people to use the internet for menial tasks like reading email and checking facebook status updates and provides all that function for free I know what I'm putting my money on. - wakeborder, on 07/08/2009, -0/+2You're ***** Microsoft :)
The days of charging 300 for an OS is over, bitch. - damack, on 07/08/2009, -0/+2He got a lot more wrong than right.
The cell? That didn't end up in PC's and never will. - alexsabree, on 07/08/2009, -2/+3If it is a good browser than yes.
Oh and GoogleOS will be using Linux and in Linux there is no such thing as "deeply integrated." Not to mention that this also be open source - just like android. - Portezbie, on 07/08/2009, -2/+3Yes, Lord Google! Command and I shall obey!
- t0ny, on 07/08/2009, -0/+1I can't wait for Microsoft to release their own OS. I've been waiting for years and years. Oh wait... Nevermind.
- alexsabree, on 07/08/2009, -1/+2Can't think of anything google has done to piss me off. So I'm crossing my fingers and hoping that this new project doesn't end up like Android. Hopefully they won't make the same mistake twice and put the OS on horrible hardware.
- peterfnet, on 07/08/2009, -0/+1Oh, I'm sure the EU will limit Google just list MS. No Chrome OS with Chrome browser
- dareyoutomove, on 07/08/2009, -3/+4I for one...errrr
Good news everyone! - dvd101x, on 07/08/2009, -0/+1They may be inspired by cloudOS, or linpus quick OS
But it's much better if it's chrome with gears (for offline acces)
Later this year they will drop in google Wave which will make advanced html 5 features much more useful. So if you combine both, apps designed for an OS that is based on web plus a system that sends and synchronize data letter by letter, they could come up with a lot of crazy apps that we cannot imagine right now.
maybe all they will get some local media player features within the browser too. - mr_ziy, on 07/08/2009, -0/+1I love Google as much as anyone,
I use their RSS reader, email, tasks, docs, etc.
But I dunno about having a Google Desktop.... Waaay too much information on Google's end (If there isn't already)
Competition is always good though :) - funni64, on 07/08/2009, -0/+1Watch out Microsoft... Google's a' comin' :)
- Eugenia, on 07/08/2009, -1/+2This guy foretold the Google Chrome OS right 5 YEARS AGO http://is.gd/1qMQ8
Just read the negativity people commented against his ideas back then! Almost no one believed in the ideas the guy was describing. The guy got right not only the idea behind a cloud OS, but also the release date!!! - fasda, on 07/08/2009, -0/+1Hasn't the linux crowd been saying the same thing for years and nothing has changed?
- whatthefu, on 07/08/2009, -1/+2Anyone get the feeling they're beginning to stretch themselves too thin? Maybe not, but they seem to be putting their foot in the market for just about everything.
- Castaa, on 07/08/2009, -1/+2Will it be open source?
- Tyrax, on 07/08/2009, -3/+4Listening? because you want a browser that is deeply integrated with the OS and desktop?
- Marlon, on 07/08/2009, -0/+1How much will it cost is the question. even if it's $49.99, ubuntu's free and already works fine for me.
- Eugenia, on 07/08/2009, -0/+1Except the CELL stuff, everything else he said was in the mark.
- jstohler, on 07/08/2009, -0/+1Linux has had years to evolve into a commercially viable product, but even so only appeals to serious techies. It's time for someone else to step up.
- dukeeeey, on 07/08/2009, -0/+1it's just their own flavour of linux
hardly a brand new os - shadowman99, on 07/08/2009, -0/+1Another Open Letter to Hobbyists
After having some time to reflect on my earlier letter I've decided I might have been a bit harsh. It turns out you home brew geeks are willing to write software for free and give it to each other. That whole Linux thing just came out of left field, and now Google is willing to give you free stuff. I'm beginning to feel like you might not like me.
For years there has been a natural ecosphere where you buy or build a PC and then you pay me. You keep paying me until you buy a new PC, and then you pay me some more. I think this has been working well.
A few of you buy Apples once in a while, but really, just who are you fooling? You still had to buy Office from me. But in recent years some of you snot nose brats decided to write free operating systems.
And now there's Google.
I told the Dept. of Justice a few years ago that the next competitor to Microsoft could be a bunch of kids in a garage, but FFS c'mon! We all knew I wasn't serious.
This is not how it's supposed to be! Google is trying to come into MY HOUSE! There's no free market in my house! Those are MY PCs! Those are MY LAPTOPS! I haven't been able to own the web and now you're cutting me little by little out of the operating system market. I put out ten freaking versions of Vista! You little sh!ts didn't buy any of them!!! I tell you to upgrade from XP you're supposed to freakin' upgrade!!!!
ANd stop laughing at Bing... I worked so hard... ( *sob* ) It's not fair...
Bill Gates - imkidred, on 07/08/2009, -0/+1So I have to wait until next year to sing "The Witch Is Dead" song?
- thelelander, on 07/08/2009, -1/+2Sounds like a polished linux distro. My money is on it being like the chrome browser, interesting for a few months but ultimately ends up next to every other linux distro in the freebie bin. Google has a pretty robust history of so-so forays into new ventures.
GOOGLE CHECKOUT FTW! - CanUTube, on 07/08/2009, -4/+4Doesn't Google have enough stuff already?
- chingy1788, on 07/08/2009, -1/+1Microsoft has too much of the market...
everyone runs exes...
and when some one cant run an exe... they start bitching about it
standardisation is needed... - fasda, on 07/08/2009, -1/+1also if other google software has taught us anything all information processed by the OS will be stored on google's servers.
- funni64, on 07/08/2009, -0/+0hahaha it's about time! 5 years?!
- markgl, on 07/08/2009, -2/+1So you want a PC built for thieves.
- stickypenguin, on 07/08/2009, -5/+1I will happily bow down to the company that runs my life
- MyBOOMstick, on 07/08/2009, -11/+2It will probably flop around uselessly for a year or so just like android has....
I mean, android is a great idea and OS, just nobody is doing anything useful with it yet... - dalson, on 07/08/2009, -11/+1Microsoft's monopoly of operating systems being sold on computers seems to be slowly fading away...
(I am a Windows user.)
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