Linked by Thom Holwerda on Tue 14th Jul 2009 22:16 UTC
During his keynote speech at the Worldwide Partner Conference, Steve Ballmer has dismissed Google's announcement of Chrome OS. "There's good data that says 50 percent of the time that someone's on their PC, they're not doing something with the Web browser," Ballmer said, suggesting that an ideal operating system would provide both rich online and offline integration. It is not sure yet what Chrome OS will exactly offer.
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2007-03-04
To be honest, we have enough information about Google OS to draw conclusions:
- It's going to be a Linux distro
- It's going to have only Chrome as an application
Basically it's going to have even less features than existing Linux distros that have arguably failed (with hardly 1% usage share). What does Google expect? Sticking a "Google" logo to the boot screen won't be enough to make it successful.
People want to edit their videos before sending them to YouTube, they want to watch DVB-T television on their computer while retouching their vacation photos before sending them to their Facebook profile, they want snappy full-featured and desktop-based office suites (not Google Docs). The web has its pros but it won't replace well-established desktop applications. I'm taking a look at all applications on my computer, and many of them can't be replaced by a web browser...