Google dropping "a nuclear bomb" on Microsoft

rushiblog · #1 (**permalink**) 07-08-2009, 03:00 PM

Google operating system to take on Microsoft Windows.Google is planning its own operating system, in a direct challenge to Microsoft and its Windows hegemony. The New York Times and tech-news site Ars Technica, broke the news on their respective websites. Inquiries from the press forced Google to disclose the news a day earlier, last night, on their official blog, which gives a light rundown on why they're doing what they're doing.
In a nutshell, Google is looking to expand its Chrome web browser as an operating system for the cheap netbooks that have proliferated in the marketplace. Some initially believed we'd see a version of Android, Google's mobile computing platform, transmogrified into some type of operating system. But Google went with the Chrome platform instead. In the company's own words:

chimeara27 · #2 (**permalink**) 11-07-2009, 04:28 AM

it this really true?

bloghub · #3 (**permalink**) 11-08-2009, 05:29 AM

It's true.

the new Android 2.0 is out recently...

samuelc · #4 (**permalink**) 12-24-2009, 02:57 PM

This will probably do well in poorer countries.

facebokguru · #5 (**permalink**) 02-17-2010, 11:01 AM

Microsoft will bear it easily.