That means that Google plans to compete with the 800 Ton Gorilla known as Microsoft.
This isn't the first time a company has tried to break into the operating system market. My favorite quote on this come from someone who has tried.
“I’m not saying the shareholders should take their money and run, but this is the beginning of the end of Microsoft as we knew it,” said Jean-Louis Gassée, a venture capitalist who has battled Microsoft in posts at Apple and his own computer company, Be.
-quote curtousy of the
New York Times article on this sybject:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/09/technology/internet/09google.html?ref=business
It's ironic that the person responsible for the creation of the BeOS predicts doom for Microsoft due to the creation of an Operating System by Google. If he was so knowledgeable when it comes to OS's shouldn't his have put Microsoft out of business? The BeOS is basically an afterthought when it comes to discussing OS's.
All this hoopla over Google's new OS forgets one important fact: that main obstacle against any new operating system is getting people to buy computers running it. People tend to avoid computers with new operating systems becasue there is a dearth of software available for the new platform. Most of the software for the new operating system will either have to be written by Google, which results in Google throwing resources into a money pit, or from open source geeks.
Frankly, the main market for the new OS will probably be computer shoppers looking to avoid a Microsoft product, and we already have two options for those people. They're called Mac OS and Linux, one of which is open source and can be used for free which is the main selling point for Google's new OS.
It looks more like Google Linux than Google Chrome to me.
File this one under "Much ado about nothing."
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