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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Balmer to me is the "George 'dubya' Bush" of Microsoft. Every time he says something like this, or does a monkey dance on stage, I imagine some PR guy cringing off stage, sobbing into the unused script.
If what Balmer says is true and 50% of the time, people aren't using their browser, that means they are the other 50% of the time!.
I will bet good money that there are three apps that would account for about 90% of that non-browser 50%: Outlook, Word and MSN Messenger.
All three of those applications could easily be replaced by offline/online web-based apps, and imagine what you could get in return; a fresh new OS with no backwards compatibility issues, and minimal bloat.
Even if Balmer's right (unlikely) there's still a massive market for this type of OS in the ATM/kiosk world.