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Will Microsoft's Silverlight dampen the appeal of Google's Chrome OS? | |
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| Time: 13:33 EST/18:33 GMT | News Source: ZDNet | Posted By: Robert Stein | ||
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I’m not one of those ready to write Windows an RIP certificate now that Google has finally taken (some of) the wraps off its Chrome OS. In fact, after reading through industry watchers’ questions and Google’s answers about it, I’m thinking that Chrome OS may not look quite so appealing by the time it rolls out in late 2010. Here’s why. First, as others have noted, Google’s Chrome OS is a new windowing system layered on top of Linux that is being customized to run on netbooks. Chrome OS is an “extension to Chrome,” the company’s browser, in Google execs’ own words. Google officials are billing Chrome OS, among other things, as a way to provide Web applications with the functionality of desktop applications. |
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| #1 By 37 (96.42.32.6) at Friday, November 20, 2009 04:20:31 PM |
| I am sure MS will copy whatever they can to be sure they are not left in the dust. |
| #2 By 8556 (173.27.242.53) at Friday, November 20, 2009 06:09:57 PM |
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When the grandparents that buy a Chrome OS netbook discover that the grandkids games won't run on it, off Chrome goes and on comes Windows. That scenario has happened with all my customers that chose Ubuntu with a new PC, which they loved, when a relative (usually grandkids) could not play their so-very-important Windows based games when visiting. In one instance the customer stayed with dual boot but "needed" Windows installed.
Chrome will receive the same fate when netbooks with it installed are released. Google may have better luck with some tightwad businesses as there are a large number of financial, and other, business services that run online very well. |
| #3 By 16797 (65.95.11.181) at Friday, November 20, 2009 06:45:07 PM |
| Chrome OS will NOT even run on any (PC) hardware. It will run on specific hardware only. For example, regular hard drives aren't even supported, it's SSD only, etc. This is not another PC operating system like Windows or Linux. |
| #4 By 8556 (173.27.242.53) at Friday, November 20, 2009 06:50:51 PM |
| #3: Then there will be some unhappy people stuck with a marginally useful device that loses its appeal much like Asus's original Linux netbook. |
| #5 By 9589 (71.54.56.105) at Saturday, November 21, 2009 12:29:19 AM |
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I'd say that Google ought to "mind their knitting." That is concentrate on holding on to search. Bing is a good enough product that is only going to get better. It has already garnered 10% share and is growing. Like so much else that Microsoft has put into their OSs, it is just "on there" when the average joe or jane gets his brand new shiney computer home. And, so it will stay.
So far as Google's Chrome OS - pfft . . . |
| #6 By 8556 (173.27.242.53) at Saturday, November 21, 2009 12:23:53 PM |
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#3: According to a Slashdot story the Chrome alpha can be run in a virtual machine. Google may attempt to limit Chrome to hardware they choose. They will fail.
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/11/21/0022253/Try-Out-Chrome-OS-In-a-Virtual-Machine |
| #7 By 143 (216.205.223.146) at Saturday, November 21, 2009 05:36:12 PM |
| Google Chrome not so shiny. |
| #8 By 16797 (65.93.212.62) at Saturday, November 21, 2009 11:02:18 PM |
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#6 That may be so, but what is the point..?!
Why would we want to run Chrome OS inside a virtual machine when we can simply run Chrome browser :) |
| #9 By 23275 (68.117.163.128) at Saturday, November 21, 2009 11:21:43 PM |
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If you don't think that SL (post SL + WPF merging) will provide the basis for future distributed applications and that Gubuntu is the way forward, do yourself a favor and check out the dev resources that are emerging around SL. If there is a company that is best positioned to dominate "the cloud" I assess it is Microsoft, http://timheuer.com/blog/archive/2009/11/18/whats-new-in-silverlight-4-complete-guide-new-features.aspx?utm_source=Twitter-timheuer
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