Google to Launch Rival to Windows
Google yesterday took direct aim at Microsoft, unveiling plans for a PC operating system (OS) that will compete head-on with the software giant's Windows and form the final element of its strategy to reshape the computing landscape.
Google said a number of low-priced laptops known as netbooks, based on its new OS, would go on sale in the second half of 2010. It is predicted that the software would bring benefits to PC users from greatly cutting the time it takes for a PC to start up to reducing the complexity of managing PC's.
Coming in the wake of its Android OS for smartphones and Chrome browser for accessing the Internet, Google's planned OS, to be called Chrome OS, will complete the range of software that the company produces for internet-connected devices. PC users will not have to rely on Microsoft's dominant Windows. Microsoft's second big money-spinner, the Office suite of applications, is tied to Windows. As an open-source system based on freely available Linux software, Chrome OS takes aim at that.
More than 70% of the software applications used by the typical company run on the Windows OS, making it expensive and time-consuming for companies to consider changing to a new OS.
Microsoft has already proved adept at fending off a series of attacks on its Windows PC business, leaving it with a market share of 97%. It has countered this news with a statement that the new Windows7 OS due out in October 2009 will not be bundled with Internet Explorer, but will give PC users the choice of what browser to install.
Cheers Mark Bower
Director, NextWave.IT Ltd
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Google said a number of low-priced laptops known as netbooks, based on its new OS, would go on sale in the second half of 2010. It is predicted that the software would bring benefits to PC users from greatly cutting the time it takes for a PC to start up to reducing the complexity of managing PC's.
Coming in the wake of its Android OS for smartphones and Chrome browser for accessing the Internet, Google's planned OS, to be called Chrome OS, will complete the range of software that the company produces for internet-connected devices. PC users will not have to rely on Microsoft's dominant Windows. Microsoft's second big money-spinner, the Office suite of applications, is tied to Windows. As an open-source system based on freely available Linux software, Chrome OS takes aim at that.
More than 70% of the software applications used by the typical company run on the Windows OS, making it expensive and time-consuming for companies to consider changing to a new OS.
Microsoft has already proved adept at fending off a series of attacks on its Windows PC business, leaving it with a market share of 97%. It has countered this news with a statement that the new Windows7 OS due out in October 2009 will not be bundled with Internet Explorer, but will give PC users the choice of what browser to install.
Cheers Mark Bower
Director, NextWave.IT Ltd
www.nextwaveit.biz
enquiry@nextwaveit.biz
http://twitter.com/nextwaveit.biz
http://linkedin/in/nextwaveit
Mobile: 07806197987
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