Gates Talks About Google's Chrome OS
We've already heard what Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer had to say about Google's plans for a Chrome OS, but what does Bill Gates have to say?
Earlier in the week in an interview with CNet, Gates said that Natal would be for more than just gaming. However, he also spoke about the Chrome OS and said that, without more details, it was hard to make an informed decision. "The more vague they are, the more interesting it is," he said, according to CNet.
That said, Gates did reiterate a point many of you have been making over the last two weeks: the Google OS is just another dressed up Linux OS. "There's many, many forms of Linux operating systems out there and packaged in different ways and booted in different ways," the Microsoft Chairman said.
All in all it seems both Gates and Ballmer are not worried about the Chrome OS. Do you think they're right to brush off competition so flippantly? Let us know in the comments below!
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There's nothing to brush off - Chrome OS is a Linux-driven lightweight OS for netbooks (or so Google say). The only place therefore that Microsoft could find competition is in the netbook market, but Windows 7 is out in a few months and Chrome OS isn't due for a year - plenty of time for M$ to get their foot in and lock partners in to W7.
Truth be told I don't know what M$ have said about Android and how it will affect WinMo but it's likely after a bit of silence they've decided to actually say something this time about Chrome OS.
Chrome Browser is not an hit. 2% of the users. But what Chrome did was to kick of a few ideas, and the js compiler war even tho it would have come anyway.
What will a commersials driven Chrome OS do? If anything, it would make the competitors to focus on webapps. Google has a pretty ok office solution, they got mail and search, and more is comming. But Google will not make my mom, dad, sister, aunt, unkle, grand.. reinstall to this OS. MS sell most of it OS through pc vendors by 96% or so.
Every hardware thingy got an windows driver. Not everyone got an linux driver, and Google will not be able to support all hardware.
People want windows, and people do not change os. They don't know what OS is.
Imagine if you had an awesome Unix based OS that was made by a company everyone was familiar with and had the will to turn MS into a sideshow. I can think of one existing awesome Unix based OS. What if Google did something similar for free? I'm getting damp thinking about it...
Their mantra of 'do no evil' is at best childish, at worst scary. Google disturbs me far more than any other company. Their strangle-hold on the search market has led to a global business tax on any company trying to do business online. Their vague privacy policies and data collection on everyone and everything is terrifying. As useful as their 'free' apps and services maybe, they seem unable to design anything aesthetically pleasing, and it allows them to collect yet more data.
If knowledge is power, bow down to your new 'non-evil' God - Google.
Id like to see Google push this OS as hard as they can so that Windows has some real competition.
@longerlife
I agree with all but the aesthetically pleasing bit.
The google tools keep me locked in by being the best to use. I've had to suffer a few web tracking programs over the years.
I find their analytic and payperclick software to be just about the best there is. The workflow and tools do the job I expect and better.
I wish other companies would reach that tool standard. The overture payperclick software is awful to use.
But all that aside they do track toooooo much of everything to be trusted.
You've just got to love those guys at Google.
They bypassed the brokers when they did their IPO when all were saying they'd fail. They didn't and Wall St didn't get it's collective snout in the trough.
Then they responded to Gates comments about taking on Google's search business, so they responded by making a free version of Office.
Now they're going to write an OS and take on Windows.
GREAT!
They're can only be winners, and that's us, the general public.
How long have we had Windows and still it sucks, 2 minutes boot-up, bloated and slow after all the patches, and I'm talking of XP and that's their best version.
Vista, what a joke, they fogot about the elementary thing about sucessful computing, smooth transition. So they redesign the desktop and make it a bug*** to find where things are, and then it's no faster than XP.
I have faith that Google know their audience and can provide a fast and efficient OS that just works in the background and doesn't add $100 to the cost of every pc.
Google vecome competition with MS. No way,LOL.
Google OS is like others it is Linux in another wrapper.
I can see it in the netbooks and small laptops with limited useage.
Being FREE will also be nice. We will just have to wait and see.
Remember it isn't written yet..
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