Google plans OS for PCs

[streetcry]

GOOGLE Inc is expected to announce on Wednesday that it is developing an operating system for a personal computer based on its Chrome browser, The New York Times said, citing two people briefed on Google's plans.

Google plans to make the announcement on a company blog on Wednesday afternoon, the paper said.

No one at Google could immediately be reached for comment on the report.

The software will be based on the Chrome Web browser, Mountain View, California-based Google said in a blog post. It will be designed for low-cost laptops called netbooks at first and will be available to consumers in the second half of 2010, reported Bloomberg News.

Google's plan intensifies the company's competition with Microsoft, the world's largest software maker. In addition to Web browsers, the companies compete for Internet-search users. Google is also going after users of Microsoft's Office software by offering online word-processing and spreadsheet programs.

'We hear a lot from our users and their message is clear - computers need to get better,' Google said. 'The operating systems that browsers run on were designed in an era where there was no Web.'

The Chrome OS will be open-source, meaning the program code will be open to developers, Google said. The software will work on top of Linux, the open-source operating system, Google said.

Google said the Chrome OS is separate from its Android software, which was initially designed for mobile phones. The new operating system is designed to prevent users from having to deal with viruses and security updates, Google said.

:oIo:

 

[liketogossip]

looks like google wanna fight with all the big players

 

[motormafia]

GOOGLE Inc is expected to announce on Wednesday that it is developing an operating system for a personal computer based on its Chrome browser, The New York Times said, citing two people briefed on Google's plans.

Google plans to make the announcement on a company blog on Wednesday afternoon, the paper said.

No one at Google could immediately be reached for comment on the report.

The software will be based on the Chrome Web browser, Mountain View, California-based Google said in a blog post. It will be designed for low-cost laptops called netbooks at first and will be available to consumers in the second half of 2010, reported Bloomberg News.

Google's plan intensifies the company's competition with Microsoft, the world's largest software maker. In addition to Web browsers, the companies compete for Internet-search users. Google is also going after users of Microsoft's Office software by offering online word-processing and spreadsheet programs.

'We hear a lot from our users and their message is clear - computers need to get better,' Google said. 'The operating systems that browsers run on were designed in an era where there was no Web.'

The Chrome OS will be open-source, meaning the program code will be open to developers, Google said. The software will work on top of Linux, the open-source operating system, Google said.

Google said the Chrome OS is separate from its Android software, which was initially designed for mobile phones. The new operating system is designed to prevent users from having to deal with viruses and security updates, Google said.

:oIo:

Great News! I am waiting to get PRC made Android h/p with 3G and Linux functions in SG. Can forget about any other h/p once and for all.

 

[motormafia]

Re: Google Linux OS to kick MS butt

http://tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/20090708/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_google_operating_system

Google's new operating system to take on Microsoft

* By MICHAEL LIEDTKE, AP Technology Writer - Wed Jul 8, 2009 3:32AM EDT


SUN VALLEY, Idaho -

Google Inc. is working on a new operating system for inexpensive computers in a daring attempt to wrest away Microsoft Corp.'s long-running control over people's computing experience.

The new operating system, announced late Tuesday night on Google's Web site, will be based on the company's nine-month-old Web browser, Chrome. Google intends to rely on help from the community of open-source programmers to develop the Chrome operating system, which is expected to begin running computers in the second half of 2010.

The Mountain View, Calif.-based company disclosed its plans for the operating system shortly after an online technology news service, Ars Technica, and The New York Times telegraphed the news on their Web sites.

Google is designing the operating system primarily for "netbooks," a lower-cost, less powerful breed of laptop computers that is becoming increasingly popular among budget-conscious consumers primarily interested in surfing the Web.

The operating system represents Google's boldest challenge yet to its biggest nemesis — Microsoft.

A high-stakes duel between the two technology powerhouses has been steadily escalating in recent years as Google's dominance of the Internet's lucrative search market has given it the means to threaten Microsoft in ways that few other companies can.

Google already has rankled Microsoft by luring away some of its top employees and developing an online suite of computer programs that provide an alternative to Microsoft's top-selling word processing, spreadsheet and calendar applications.

Meanwhile, Microsoft has been trying to thwart Google by investing billions of dollars to improve its own Internet search and advertising systems — to little avail so far. In the past month or so, though, Microsoft has been winning positive reviews and picking up more users with the latest upgrade to its search engine, now called "Bing." Microsoft is hailing the makeover with a $100 million marketing campaign.

Now Google is aiming for Microsoft's financial jugular with Chrome its operating system.

Microsoft has drawn much of its power — and profits — from the Windows operating system that has steered most personal computers for the past two decades.

Google's chief executive, Eric Schmidt, and its co-founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, have made little attempt to conceal their disdain for Windows in recent years.

Schmidt maintains Microsoft sometimes unfairly rigs its operating system to limit consumer choices — something that Microsoft has consistently denied doing. Google fears Microsoft could limit access to its search engine and other products if Windows is set up to favor Microsoft products in the default settings.

Page and Brin have frequently derided Windows as a clunky operating system susceptible to computer viruses and other security problems.

Google made a veiled reference to Windows' perceived shortcomings in its blog posting.

"We hear a lot from our users and their message is clear — computers need to get better," wrote Sundar Pichai, Google's vice president of product management and Linus Upson, Google's engineering director.

A Microsoft spokesman didn't immediately respond to an e-mail request for comment sent early Wednesday morning.

Schmidt and Brin are expected to discuss Google's new operating system later this week when they appear at a media conference hosted by Allen & Co. at the Sun Valley resort in Idaho.

Despite its own power and prominence, Google won't have an easy time changing the status quo that has governed the personal computing industry for so long.

As an example of how difficult it is to topple a long-established market leader, Google estimates about 30 million people are now using its Chrome browser — a fraction of those that rely on Microsoft's market-leading Internet Explorer. And there have been various attempts to develop open-source software to undermine Microsoft with relatively little effect.

The Chrome operating system will run in a new windowing system on top of a Linux kernel — computer coding that has been the foundation for the open-source software movement for nearly two decades.

Google has already introduced an operating system for mobile devices, called Android, that vies against various other systems, including ones made by Microsoft and Apple Inc.

The Android system worked well enough to entice some computer makers to begin developing netbooks that will eventually run on it.

Google, though, apparently believes a Chrome-based system will be better suited for running applications in netbooks.

"We believe choice will drive innovation for the benefit of everyone, including Google," wrote Pichai and Upson.

 

[Glaringly]

Don't play play. With Google OS you may ends up with 1/3 of your screen fill with Ads.

 

[PEE_APE_PEE]

Don't play play. With Google OS you may ends up with 1/3 of your screen fill with Ads.

That is only sounding like a Adware infected MS Windozes.

 

[singveld]

os X works on PC
i know, because i made two computers which run on OS X

the latest one is gigabyte UD5 with core i7 and GTX 285 using 10.5.7

everything can work, all apple need to do is to remove security build into the OS X, which was removed by people making OSX86.

if apple release the built in security, the fat microsoft CEO will pee in his pants when he running fratically like a mad man.

GOOGLE Inc is expected to announce on Wednesday that it is developing an operating system for a personal computer based on its Chrome browser, The New York Times said, citing two people briefed on Google's plans.

Google plans to make the announcement on a company blog on Wednesday afternoon, the paper said.

No one at Google could immediately be reached for comment on the report.

The software will be based on the Chrome Web browser, Mountain View, California-based Google said in a blog post. It will be designed for low-cost laptops called netbooks at first and will be available to consumers in the second half of 2010, reported Bloomberg News.

Google's plan intensifies the company's competition with Microsoft, the world's largest software maker. In addition to Web browsers, the companies compete for Internet-search users. Google is also going after users of Microsoft's Office software by offering online word-processing and spreadsheet programs.

'We hear a lot from our users and their message is clear - computers need to get better,' Google said. 'The operating systems that browsers run on were designed in an era where there was no Web.'

The Chrome OS will be open-source, meaning the program code will be open to developers, Google said. The software will work on top of Linux, the open-source operating system, Google said.

Google said the Chrome OS is separate from its Android software, which was initially designed for mobile phones. The new operating system is designed to prevent users from having to deal with viruses and security updates, Google said.

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[Char_Azn]

os X works on PC
i know, because i made two computers which run on OS X

the latest one is gigabyte UD5 with core i7 and GTX 285 using 10.5.7

everything can work, all apple need to do is to remove security build into the OS X, which was removed by people making OSX86.

if apple release the built in security, the fat microsoft CEO will pee in his pants when he running fratically like a mad man.

No one doubts that OSX can run on PC after Apple openly embrace Intel CPUs and generic PC parts. The only problem is Apple does not allow installation of OSX on any other hardware except for their own. Reason is simple, they are essentially a hardware company.

And no M$ isn't peeing their pants anytime soon. M$ has over 90% of the home user market. The other 10% also includes linux users. Apple still has a long way to go before they can even catch up with M$. Even when everyone is viewing Vista as a flop, it still didn't put so much as a dent in M$ market share

 

[singveld]

No one doubts that OSX can run on PC after Apple openly embrace Intel CPUs and generic PC parts. The only problem is Apple does not allow installation of OSX on any other hardware except for their own. Reason is simple, they are essentially a hardware company.

And no M$ isn't peeing their pants anytime soon. M$ has over 90% of the home user market. The other 10% also includes linux users. Apple still has a long way to go before they can even catch up with M$. Even when everyone is viewing Vista as a flop, it still didn't put so much as a dent in M$ market share

iphone
ipod
more profitable than their imac , macbook and mac pro.

 

[Gallego99]

looks like google wanna fight with all the big players

not everybody. just microsoft in particular. if the OS is given out free, u can expect many ads in one form or another on your pc.

 

[blueblobster]

not everybody. just microsoft in particular. if the OS is given out free, u can expect many ads in one form or another on your pc.

If Chrome is any indication of the performance of the new OS, I'll avoid it like a plague. Chrome is absolutely the worst browser ever.

 

[Perspective]

If Chrome is any indication of the performance of the new OS, I'll avoid it like a plague. Chrome is absolutely the worst browser ever.

Same here. Till now I don't know why people love it so much. Although download time is faster, more websites I browsed with Chrome ended up hung.

 

[Perspective]

Google won't be the only OS that has tried. It needs an overall strategy if it doesn't want to end up like Linux and Mac.

 

[tonychat]

Dun you loves a company that got balls to do things. I will support it all the way.

 

[annexa]

How will this benefit Google?

 

[Char_Azn]

At the end of the day, this will be another version of Linux. Google has a very huge mountain to climb mainly coz
1)most pple don't like change
2)Most Netbook vendors have tried providing alternatives with some form of linux distribution but reports showed that return rates of these are so high that most have either given up on it entirely or only offer very limited selection
Not only does Google have to convince vendors to accept them, they also need to convince users to switch to their OS. Not an easy task

 

[Glaringly]

The Problem with open source is because it is FREE.

Nice on those who wants it, but bad on everything else.

I hate open source it wasted so much of my time.

 

[matamafia]

not everybody. just microsoft in particular. if the OS is given out free, u can expect many ads in one form or another on your pc.

I use Linux FOC, & Solaris FOC, there is not a single ad on my screens.

 

[motormafia]

http://tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/20090710/ap_on_hi_te/us_tec_media_summit_google

Google CEO: New operating system changes the game


SUN VALLEY, Idaho -

Google Inc. Chief Executive Eric Schmidt can't wait for the Internet search leader's free operating system to debut next year.

But he admits his excitement is a relatively recent phenomenon, having spent his first six years as Google's CEO trying to convince company co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin that developing an operating system to compete against Microsoft Corp.'s dominant Windows franchise would be a terrible idea.

Schmidt didn't think the timing was right and, worse, he didn't want Google to get into a potentially bruising battle with the world's largest software maker. His change of heart shows how far Google has come since Page and Brin started the Mountain View, Calif.-based company in a Silicon Valley garage nearly 11 years ago.

Schmidt now believes Google can withstand whatever counter punches Microsoft might throw as the company sets out to make computers cheaper to buy and more enjoyable to use with an operating system tied to Google's 9-month-old browser, Chrome.

"They are game changers," Schmidt said during a 75-minute interview Thursday with a group of reporters at an exclusive media conference in the Idaho mountains.

The operating system, due out in the second half of 2010, threatens to chip away at Microsoft's market share in the low end of the PC market — the less expensive and less powerful laptops known as "netbooks," which are becoming increasingly popular among consumers primarily interested in surfing the Web.

Both Schmidt and Page, who accompanied the CEO during the interview, sought to downplay Google's showdown with Microsoft. It's also something Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates didn't want to discuss when he was approached at the same conference by The Associated Press earlier Thursday.

But Page couldn't resist taking some veiled shots at Windows. Without mentioning Windows, he suggested Microsoft's operating system is becoming archaic as people spend more and more of their computer time in a Web browser.

"The way we think about it is if you are living your life online, maybe you don't want everything (on computers) that came from Eric's generation," Page, 36, said as he smiled at the 54-year-old Schmidt.

Page said he will consider the operating system a resounding success if people don't realize what's controlling their computers.

"You want the computer to get out of the way and just let you get your work done," he said.

Most industry observers believe it will take years before the Chrome operating system develops into a serious challenger to Microsoft's Windows, which runs on more than 1 billion PCs, according to Collins Stewart analyst Sandeep Aggarwal.

But the Chrome operating system also could put Google into direct competition with Apple Inc., a computer maker whose board of directors includes Schmidt and another Google director, Arthur Levinson. The Federal Trade Commission already is taking a look at whether Schmidt's and Levinson's overlapping with Google and Apple threaten to diminish competition.

Schmidt doesn't see a conflict. He said he doesn't intend to recuse himself from Apple board discussions about computer operating systems like he does when the directors talk about Apple's iPhone. Schmidt leaves those talks because Google also makes a mobile operating system called Android.

Some computer makers already are considering using Android as an operating system in netbooks, but both Page and Schmidt said they think Android is better suited for handheld devices. They also think elements of the Android and Chrome systems could eventually merge.

Schmidt and Page also discussed two budding rivals, the rapidly growing online messaging service Twitter Inc. and Facebook Inc., the leading online hangout for socializing.

As long as the Internet market is still expanding, Schmidt said he doesn't view either as serious threats now because Google's internal studies show those who sign up for Twitter and Facebook tend to use the company's search engine even more. He also said Google has held discussions with Twitter on a lot of different issues, including getting better access to Twitter's posts so they will show up more quickly in Google's search results.

But the Chrome operating system dominated the interview, which has become an annual rite for Schmidt at a conference where most of the top executives in attendance try to elude reporters.

Although Google won't charge for the Chrome operating system, Schmidt said it could easily pay off by driving down the cost of computers so people can afford to buy more machines and surf the Web more often. Google wants people to spend more time online because it is the biggest seller of Internet ads — the main source of its more than $20 billion in annual revenue.

Most of Google's income flows from short text-based ads appearing alongside search results and other online content. Schmidt predicted display ads — video and online billboards — will be Google's next billion-dollar business, although he didn't forecast when the threshold would be broken.

The DoubleClick ad-serving division that delivers most of Google's display ads will generate about $275 million in revenue this year, estimated Collins Stewart's Aggarwal. Google bought DoubleClick for $3.2 billion in March 2008.

Google's overall growth has been slowing in the past year as the U.S. economy has slipped deeper into its worst recession since World War II. Schmidt believes the worst part of the collapse is over, but warned it may be years before the U.S. economy is booming again. He said sluggish growth and consumer frugality could be the "new normal."

 

[motormafia]

At the end of the day, .....
1)most pple don't like change
..

That is EXACTLY what MS does and FORCED USERS ALL THE WAY with their CHANGES, from bad to worst and costing more and more all the way.



KNN CCB MS!

From DOS to Win3.5.1 workgroup -> Win95 (Chicago) -> Win98 -> Win ME -> Win 2000 -> Win XP -> Vista CRAP -> Win 7....

From NT3.5 to NT4 -> NT5 -> NT6 to DEATH.

Change and change and change and change.

Totally crazy. From BAD TO WORST!

Cost & Cost again, troubles and crisis and more crisis.

So might as well CHANGE to Linux?!
:p