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friendofgunnar
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posted January 02, 2009 09:35 AM |
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FoG's prediction for 2009
Some clues we know already:
-Google has been using some kind of unknown operating system in their internal network. When computers from that network query computers on the outside, they don't leave recognizable traces from current operating systems.
-Google has a vast compound in California working on some secret project. All 600 or so employees working there have been sworn to secrecy.
-All the computers that run google's functions have linux as their OS. This is all the servers that underly the search engine, the mapping functions, gmail, etc..etc...
-Google has showed an interest in shareware OS's (Android for cell phones) and also standard business programs (like google docs).
So here's my prediction:
In 2009 google is going to come out with a Linux distribution. They're going to package it with all the standard office programs (word processor, spreadsheet, email, networking etc...etc...). Part of the prediction is that they are as we speak in negotations with some computer manufactorers for including the distro as part of a complete package offered to businesses.
Microsoft will die.
Haha,just kidding about that last one. 
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posted January 02, 2009 02:16 PM |
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Microsoft will die.
If it continues making OSes like Vista or implementing that pay-as-you-use feature than that's most certainly true 
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posted January 02, 2009 03:12 PM |
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Google are way better than MS.
Not saying they are angels, but even their messenger (Google Talk) uses an open source protocol and isn't filled with ads, nor their email. Or if you use pidgin you won't expect any "protocol" incompatibilities because it uses an open protocol and it actually encourages third party apps to use it.
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posted January 02, 2009 03:46 PM |
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Yep, you're correct, TheDeath. Did I just say that? 
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posted January 02, 2009 03:52 PM |
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Did I just say that?
Did mvass hack your account or...?
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posted January 02, 2009 04:19 PM |
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FoG:
It'd be interesting if this happened.
TheDeath:
lol 
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posted January 02, 2009 05:17 PM |
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Yep, you're correct, TheDeath. Did I just say that?
As Elvin pointed out earlyer, you seem to agree with almost everybody this time of the year.
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posted January 03, 2009 09:47 PM |
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I completely agree with FoG.
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friendofgunnar
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posted July 08, 2009 10:34 PM |
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Google Strikes Back
Quentin Hardy, 07.08.09, 12:30 PM EDT
On the heels of Microsoft's Bing, the Internet giant develops a computer operating system.
Google says it will develop a computer operating system. The product isn't due out for a year, so there's not much to say about its technical worth, other than it will be based on the popular open-source Linux system.
The Internet giant's action, however, tells us much about the current competitive environment on the Internet. It also indicates that both Google ( GOOG - news - people ) and Microsoft ( MSFT - news - people ) have shifted their competitive game from "out-innovating the other" to include "hurting the other guy's business."
Google says it is building the operating system that to be open source and designed for cheap, lightweight netbook computers. Most of those machines now use Microsoft's Windows XP system, despite early efforts to get Linux on netbooks. Google's Android OS, built originally for phones but intended to migrate to other devices as well, has had little traction on netbooks. It will, Google says, run on both Intel ( INTC - news - people )-type semiconductors and cheaper variations from rivals. If computer manufacturers needed any further indication that their trade in more expensive, higher-margin laptops is under threat, this was it.
The operating system is designed, Google says, as "a natural extension of Google Chrome," the company's Internet browser. Putting the browser at the real center of computing action, with the device operating system merely an adjunct, means two things: More applications like word processing and spreadsheets will reside inside the big, remote data centers of companies like Google, and Microsoft's mainstay cash machine, the operating system, is not so relevant anymore.
That's quite a statement, particularly coming in the form of an announcement for a product that's at least a year away. Microsoft used to be known for hurting the competition like that. It could be argued that, much as Android was announced in November of 2007 and is only coming out now, Google needs a long timeline to bring outside developers to the project. Equally, it sows confusion among Microsoft's partners and encourages them to pressure Microsoft to charge even less for Windows XP.
The Google announcement comes two months after Microsoft's introduction of the Bing search engine, an effort to take share in the search business from Google. It does more than just offer a different search experience, however. In a little-noted comment during the introduction of Bing, Microsoft head Steve Ballmer said that because Bing is designed to allow Web commerce on non-Microsoft sites while still inside the search engine, it may eventually shift the way those companies get paid for their efforts. In other words, the long game also involves attacking Google-type Web advertising.
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What better way for Google to respond than by striking at Microsoft's core cash machine? As of today, in a Google-centric world at least, the operating system is a free adjunct to the real action in computing.
Now all they need to do is make that true for the rest of the world.
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posted July 09, 2009 12:27 AM |
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From a marked point of view, MS going below 60% marked share in the "desktop" marked is good for us all.
And the Chrome OS will be a good cloud, and light. So yeah it will run, quite well.
The real question is: Will Windows 7 actually gain marked share? If that one fails, its rapid marked losses(and i hope for that).
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