Google threatens to release its own OS

A Mageek back on the INQ! Are things getting back to normal

I tried Google Chrome and I didn't like it. This idea IMO won't be enough to replace Microshaft. It's been tried with other open source OS's such as Ubuntu which is free and MS still owns all.

While competition is good all I see is another company like Google trying to become the next Microsoft.

"while some new Chrome OS applications will be multi-platform, running on Windows, Mac and Linux. [Are we sure about that? - Ed.]"

Those applications are web apps that's why they'll work on any OS,as Google states on it's blog: "All web-based applications will automatically work and new applications can be written using your favorite web technologies. And of course, these apps will run not only on Google Chrome OS, but on any standards-based browser on Windows, Mac and Linux thereby giving developers the largest user base of any platform."

LOL ... Talk about threat from OpenOffice, FireFox. OpenOffice still light years away from MSOffice. Firefox couldnt succeed until MS itself gave Firefox developers space in MS offices i.e. to sit with MS Developers.
Microsoft offers helping hand to Firefox
http://news.cnet.com/Microsoft-offers-helping-hand-to-Firefox/2100-1032_3-6109455.html
It could be threat to UBUNTU but not Windows.
OpenOffice... stop polishing the same shoe
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1137142/can-open-office-sauced

I wonder if SRware will mod it too....

Chrome is not bad, if you don't mind the ET phone home service... .all it took is some sensible Germans and some coding and voila! you have SRware Iron!

I can't stand the FireFerret(tm) and IE 8 is slow... so Iron for browsing (unless I need IE for some extensions that dont work on Chromium)

But Chrome OS? it will be in beta for years......

Nothing will displace Win on desktops and I hope it doesn't. Too many ppl have no inkling to try anything else, but want windows, thats what they know.

Yes, that'll be the title for 6 or 7 years after introduction. Who in their right mind would install an OS with the tag "Beta" on it on a real system (read: not some POS home system that can be reformatted on a whim)?

Plus, for all the conspiracy theorists that claimed Windows has government backdoors... any Google OS will have more monitoring, logging, and backdoors than they do legitimate functions. You get more privacy posting your daily schedule to Facebook than you do using a Google product. If anything, this will make people want to use Windows more, because at least they only have to worry about Windows phoning home to keep things running... not about what you just saved in a text document and how it could be used in an ad.

Bet it doesn't take then that long to overtake Linux LMAO

"I tried Google Chrome and I didn't like it. This idea IMO won't be enough to replace Microshaft.

posted by : Rodster"

Stick with Binux then

You mean the EU will let google release a new OS with a browser in place.... ummmmm

To be fair I think its about time someone took a fresh look at this situation. Many households have a pc because they want to get on the net, check emails, and occasionally write a proper word doc, Kids doing homework etc.What they need is a simply OS which can do these without all the other stuff.

Now power users, busineses and gamers will still stick to windows. But many of the people new to computers will welcome a simple interface which lets them do thier simple tasks. You only have to look at the explosion of netbooks to see how peoples habits have changed.

And everyone who's saying its still unix etc and wont take off, you're forgetting the massive power that Google has. It's a friendly brand which people know. If someone in google's target market was about to but a pc and their options were windows, ubuntu or google, very few would have even heard of ubuntu, but they would have all heard of the other two. And if in the shop they had a simple easy to use google interface and stock windows, they'd probably welcome the google one into their homes.

For the record, I've used all three big browsers (Firefox, Chrome/Safari, and IE) and they each have their good points and bad (no real preference), and I've also used windows and linux (I LOVE Knoppix). I for one certainly welcome a little more competition in the OS market. Just because the Google OS will be in beta for a while doesn't mean that users should be wary of it. On the contrary, the simplicity of it's design and the fact that it will be built on long-term proven framework, such as linux, signal that it should be very relaible and have fairly good driver suppport right from the start.

From a strategic point of view, it does seem rather brilliant, as the netbook area is where Microsoft is currently weakest with XP still "filling the gap" while they try to come up with an OS that will meet the needs/designed for netbook users. Windows 7 "should" fit on a netbook okay (I've run it in a VM on my laptop with 1 Gig of ram and it seemed okay), but it is still largely vista at it's core and is designed as a big "one OS to rule them all," not really designed from the ground-up for netbooks. Also the big box makers will not suffer the imposed netbook constraints of Microsoft (and possibly Intel) with a google OS/Ion platform (12.1 inch screen, multi-core atom). While the beta may scare off some big business customers, it should get their "foot in the door," and for the record as a Windows user since 3.1, almost every Windows OS SHOULD have had a big beta stamp slapped on it upon it's release. This appears to be Google's arrow aimed at Achilles heel; only time will tell what effects it will have.

Normally I get excited about new operating systems, but I don't trust Google enough to use an operating system from them. Once they crossed the line of letting the Chinese government start dictating how some of their services work, they lost me as a potential user.
Also, from what I read it sounds like it's not really a new OS anyhow. It sounds like a Google distribution of Linux rather than a new OS. I know this is splitting hairs, but it annoys me that this is spun as Google creating an operating system when it sounds more like they are doing a Linux version of Microsoft's IE desktop integration.

How many Linux distros world needs ????

Maybe this will get 0.2% market share compared to 0.1% of rest of the Linux distros.

That means by sometime next year chrome may actually work on linux :-)

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Google has abandoned it's "Don't be evil" motto. So yes, it's going to suck just like Vista.

Sorry have forgotten the name of Googles incarmation of there JAVA replacement. But it has been proven NOT to be secure and it also grants easy direct access to the hardware layer! Shall I repeat that? It grants easy direct access to the hardware layer!

So feel free to install the Google version of Linux along with Chrome!
Hackers of the world shall rejoice as Googles flakey code is spread to the masses of sheepish followers.

Also good luck with mainframe ooops cloud computing when the servers or network is down.

Also I don't see how all of it's app's shall be free. It'll be exactly like the iStore or whatever they call it IMHO or we better all go and sell our Google stocks now! ;)

and it already has people slaggin it off... so it must be a contender.

If anyone has the resources to develope a true Windows competitor its google.

b [b][quote]nd it already has people slaggin it off... so it must be a contender.

If anyone has the resources to develope a true [/quote][b] /b

oh poppers