Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 8th Sep 2008 20:55 UTC, submitted by Punktyras
With all the recent hype surrounding Google's Chrome, it's refreshing to see someone taking a few steps back and looking at the bigger picture. Superlatives were abound about Chrome (I personally really like it), but some people really took it overboard - take TechCrunch for instance: "Chrome is nothing less than a full on desktop operating system that will compete head on with Windows." Seeing my nationality, I know a tulip mania when I see one. So does Ted Dziuba.
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2006-02-12
No matter how you look at it Google is NOT and will NOT develop an OS for the foreseeable future. They have said that quite a few times now and I really don't see what the big deal about a new OS is. Sure Windows sux in every one of it's incarnations, Linux is hardly ready for prime time, and MacOS has it's share of peeves but at the end of the day Google is a business and they really don't care too much about the fact that MS Office does not run on your OS or that you have a problem with Skype. Every software ever released ( or bought ) by Google ties in directly with their business plan. Google gave a chance to both MS and Firefox to get their crap together and ready themselves for the services that Google is offering but neither one of the 2 products is even close to achieving the performance that Google needs/wants. Hence, the new browser. If you look just a couple of years back you will recall that Apple did much of the same with Safari for Windows. As to why Google is creating a brand new browser rather than building on top of Firefox ... well Mozilla is in charge of Firefox and steering Mozilla in the *right* direction might prove quite a challenge even for Google. Plus you almost never rely on a 3rd party for something that is considered a mission critical resource for your business.
So don't get your panties in a twist and stop with the sensationalism.