LXer: Google could kneecap Microsoft with Chrome OS

LXer · 07-09-2009, 06:20 AM

Published at LXer:

It's the announcement we've all be waiting for, one that Google at one point in the past said it wouldn't make. But it did: Google will release its own PC operating system, Chrome OS, to leverage the company's Web-based Google Apps and bypass Microsoft's Windows operating system entirely on not just netbooks but every PC platform from the smallest ARM ultraportable to a full Intel-based desktop.

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Hangdog42 · 07-09-2009, 07:21 AM

ChromeOS is doomed. Not because it won't be a good OS, but because the fanboi hype around it will raise expectations to a level that no OS could ever meet.

Doomed I tell you, doomed.

craigevil · 07-09-2009, 08:02 AM

It was on the local evening news last night. Of course it was all about how Google is creating an OS to compete with microsoft.