Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 21st Jun 2006 13:38 UTC, submitted by Satish Shah
"Let's face it. Google pretty much owns the Internet landscape. Unless something truly unexpected happens within the web community, I see no real indicator that they'll lose their market share anytime soon. This also opens them up to other online opportunities should they decide to pursue them. One such opportunity is believed to be the much famed idea of a Google OS. The rumors have been floating around back and forth for awhile now and many people believe that it's simply a matter of time. Well I'm here to tell you that this is never going to happen; at least not in a form that we might expect to see, that is."
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2005-07-14
First I said Google's real competition was Windows Live:
http://www.osnews.com/permalink.php?news_id=13533&comment_id=92449
Then, I added specifics like personalized homepage, online IM client, webmail, widget set, and other things mentioned at http://ideas.live.com/ :
http://www.osnews.com/permalink.php?news_id=13533&comment_id=92462
And finally, I wrote a little piece I called " The Google IS the computer", taking on the same basic premise as this article, that online services is the new OS layer :
http://www.osnews.com/permalink.php?news_id=13930&comment_id=103457
All I can say now is... told you so. Now, granted, the "traditional" local OS layer is still a requirement (how could it now be?), but it has largely become reduced to "anything that supports our browser requirement will do", and as such is largely interchangeable and anonymous. The OS your desktop is running can be a personal choice, and for the most part, doesn't matter - as far as Google services are concerned.