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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Ok, my wife, who is truely a noob, the kind of person who would reply "the Internet" when asked what a web browser is, well, she will not use a browser-based OS for simple reasons:
- She prefers Windows Live Messenger to Meebo (and to any other IM clients, BTW)
- She prefers the good old MS Word to Google Apps (she used it only once, a long time ago, she doesn't like OO.o either, BTW)
- She resizes her photos from her digital camera to fit Facebook/Orkut's size limits, using Photoshop
- She uses Windows Media Player to listen to her MP3s
- She uses an application to learn how to type quickly
- She has Skype minimized connected all the time
This is for a person I particularly consider *non* tech-savvy. In my case, I would add the following apps that I can't use with just a web browser:
- Dreamweaver
- Photoshop
- TextPad
- 7-Zip, WinISO, WinRAR
- Apache, PHP, MySQL
- Backup Magic
- CDBurnerXP
- CutePDF
- DVBViewer
- WS_FTP Pro
So, the usage is really restricted (checking your mail on a trip, basically). Why changing if you lose features? No.
If Google wants to expand from the netbook to the desktop, it will have to make all these popular desktop apps available easily, not poor web apps and a browser.