After years of repeated denials, Google has finally acknowledged that it's, without a doubt, constructing an working system for PCs.I feel it;s great for clients,
Microsoft Office 2007 Professional, Computer makers, software program makers and even for Microsoft that Google is finding into the operating-system game. After far more than two decades, Microsoft has only one real competitor inside the desktop OS room: Apple. That;s not enough. Competitors is fantastic. It retains prices down and accurate innovation up.Then again, right after perusing the rather couple of Chrome OS particulars that Google smartly dropped a few weeks before Microsoft is anticipated to announce the release to manufacturing of Windows seven,
Microsoft Office 2007 Enterprise, I;ve received a number of doubts…. And pretty a number of extra than the huge quantity of Google fanboys and girls who seem to forget for all its product debuts, Google hasn;t had any home runs other than search.Google will undoubtedly fill in quite a bit of the holes that it left open with today;s announcement. But here are a couple of that already have me wondering:one. Google Chrome OS is shipping inside the second half of 2010? And people criticize Microsoft for preannouning vaporware by many years? Late 2010 is eons from now within the computing world. (It;s even later than Windows Mobile seven,
Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010, which is anticipated to start showing up on phones within the first half of 2010.) To those saying that Chrome OS will drop at the same time as Windows seven, your calendars need adjusting. Windows 7 goes on sale October 22, 2009.2. Google is going to let people modify and change the OS source code? As Apple has shown rather properly,
Microsoft Office 2010 Professional Plus, when 1 vendor controls the end-to-end process, both the computer hardware and software program, and doesn;t let anyone else touch it,
Microsoft Office 2010 Professional, a Pc has a lot more cohesiveness and less crapware. Microsoft has shown that OEMs is usually allowed to customize their PCs without tinkering with — and introducing a lot more support headaches, bugs and glitches into — the OS. How many different Chrome OSes will there be? Who will be entity users call when they have OS problems?3. What happened to Google;s positioning that no one was going to want software running on PCs in our brave new world? People just needed devices and browsers and Google Docs and Apps. PCs were dated and clunky and only for people who wanted to run old-school apps locally. Weren;t they? Now, Google is adopting the same world view as Microsoft: There will be different OSes for different platforms (Android and Windows Mobile for phones; Chrome OS and Windows for PCs).I also feel it;s telling that many of Google;s fans seem to be assuming Microsoft is standing nevertheless. Yes, Windows 7 is just another version of Windows… a good 1, but nevertheless another iteration of what Microsoft;s been developing for a long time.Remember: Microsoft has many different projects inside the works that I;d say are a lot more likely to be competition to Chrome OS than is Windows 7. The Gazelle OS-in-a-browser project from Microsoft Research is still just a research project and not in incubation or test-release form. But if Microsoft decides it has legs, they could put it on a fast track. There;s Live Mesh — which is much more like Google Wave in theory, than the Chrome OS. But no 1 at Microsoft has talked publicly about the implications of “meshifying Windows” and what that might look like.I say welcome to the OS party, Google. But I know I am not going to be in line in late 2010 for a version one.0 product on a netbook. Will you? As well as if you won;t, what kinds of effects do you hope Google acquiring into the Pc OS business will have on Microsoft?