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Would You Use a Google Operating System?
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Story Found By: kevgibbo 1647 Days ago
Category: Vertical Search
"Google is getting closer and closer to offering a full blown operating system (if it hasn’t already) with its suite of desktop and office services, the Google bundling in the gPC (maybe Google PC) and Google’s Android Open Handset Alliance for mobile phone OS."
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from igorthetroll 1647 Days ago #
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No I would not! I would use Google operating system if it is remote server based. That is on Google server, but not on a client - my computer.I believe Google is going the wrong way trying to fight MS on its own turf...Google will lose billions...also Google will get stuck with all the hardware boxes, that Google for shure losing money on.Case study Microsoft X-Box still in the red for hardware, but MS is making money from video games...what is the business stradegy for Google gBox? Shove Adsense down everybody throat?Adsense pop ups, Adsense tool bar, adsense bluse screen..:)Google will become blue screen with gBox.

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from planetc1 1646 Days ago #
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I like playing with new stuff so I’d say yes. Especially if it works with all the extra hardware sitting in my closet, garage, office, etc...

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from igorthetroll 1646 Days ago #
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planet, I have puter from 1984, in my Mom’s house you want it?Think its Epson 136 mhz

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from trooperbill 1644 Days ago #
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i think online OS is the way things will go. as if you really think abouty it its the only way software vendors can really maximise the number of people not pirating their wares... i predict that in the future yyour ’desktop’ pc will simply contain some minimal hardware, decent graphics card and network card, the actual installed OS will simply be a browser, some display and device drivers and something that automatically detects and logs you into your internet account. everything else will be performed through your browser onto a virtual desktop. installing software would be a matter of selecting a product and clicking buy you’d then get access to it (in effect it being switched on and available to you as opposed to being installed on the server)

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from mjwalshe 1644 Days ago #
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NOsoory guys lay of the naugty Jazz cigarettes this is the old thin client crap that comes around every so often.Paying to Have some noddy fracking notepad/seriosly cutdown excell clone on some remote dc that you dont controll i cant see any one sensible doing this.Having the processing power close to the user is key thats why pc’s took of in the first place people and relying on having the internet to do anything is madnessI seriously doubt that it woud be possible to launch a new OS Beos was the last attempt and to be blunt G isnt set up to do that.Id love it if google say brought the Amiga back and did a modern OS dumping all the old legacy stuff which causes MS so much trouble. But it aint gona happen

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from wheel 1644 Days ago #
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An OS like that provides nothing that I don’t already get by buying a Dell PC and throwing linux on it.  I’ve got mail, office apps, browser, and plenty of apps.  Taking it online (which is the only differentiation) doesn’t do anything for me that I don’t already have.  This isn’t a PC killer by any stretch.Plus, it’s pretty clear given the MS stranglehold on the desktop that even having ’something better’ won’t convince users to move to somethinge else (not to MS bash, just pointing out the fact that there may be better alternatives, and people still don’t care generally speaking).Besides, other than Gmail, how many people use their other apps?  Effectively nobody. 

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