Somehow I don't think MS or especially Apple have anything to worry about. Google is going to race to the bottom with this one for a little while I think. Look out for bad sales on win 7 starter in the future...if there ever were a future for starter.
On Fri, Nov 20, 2009 at 10:16 AM, tjp <[email protected]> wrote: > http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/11/chromeos-announcement.ars > > "Put differently, in more concrete and less aesthetic terms, Apple and > Microsoft began decades ago with "the PC," and they're currently involved in > a slow and painful process of trying to stretch and push "the PC" out > towards the Internet and towards a more useful and integrated relationship > with the cloud as a new type of server. Google, on the other hand, began > with the Internet, and it presumes the cloud in everything it does. With > Chrome OS, the company is now trying to push and stretch the Internet back > down onto "the PC" as just one of a growing range of cloud clients. Google > acknowledged that it will eventually move Chrome OS to laptops and > conventional PCs, so the Chrome OS portable is just Google's first battle in > a long, ambitious campaign to thoroughly cloudify the entire computing > experience." > > > > > ************************************************************************* > ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** > ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** > ************************************************************************* > ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
