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ggrobot · Elite Member Joined: 28 May 2004 Posts: 53571

According to the LA Times, Google has been chatting to Wal-Mart and other retailers, to peddle a Google PC which will run Google's own operating system:

Sources say Google has been in negotiations with Wal-Mart Stores Inc., among other retailers, to sell a Google PC. The machine would run an operating system

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lmer · Posted: Tue Jan 03, 2006 7:38 pm Post subject:

Google is definately upto something big. Steve Balmer doesn't want to kill Google just because they have a better search engine than MSN. Steve Balmer wants blood because Google is acquring people like the man who maintained the uberawesome and uberfast(yes, i'm a Delphi freak) Borland Pacal/Delphi compiler, people from Mozilla, and so on. I can't wait to see what's going down.

Jelster · Junior Member Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Posts: 115

I really hope they pull it off. I think they're about the only people capable of challenging microsoft and certainly seem to be able to match them at the assimilate to conquer technique.

If they follow their main theme of slim, lean and functional tools the OS might just be a perfect platform to lift PCs out from MS control. Less bloat will mean a much better gaming platform, and give everyone a nice speed boost.

This is certainly going to be interesting. Google going slim and MS going fat with Vista. 2006 seems to be the year of direction changes.

lmer · Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2006 4:22 am Post subject:

Nah, Google isn't gonna provide a gaming platform Smile

. But if they launch an OS, it will be a really nice alternative to Windows with capabilities like Firefox, Thunderbird, OpenOffice and the likes. I'm thinking it's probably some kind of modified Linux distro, so if they don't simplify it beyond impossible, somehow i doubt it will gain much popularity considering the fact how much the Windows users are spoiled.

About Vista being bloated. Well it may be, but i just watched a Channel9 video interview with Vista Kernel team, and there are were some nice things being said about process management and user mode driver cells. But maybe it's just talk Smile

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Jelster · Junior Member Joined: 04 Oct 2005 Posts: 115

I never meant that its their intention. But a slim OS with a proper gaming layer on top would be most attractive to developers. What would it take, mmmm a competant installer and the open software you've listed.

People are damn lazy, hell I don't download linux and install because I can't be arsed to hassle with the drivers and stuff. This has pretty much been MS's defence, windows for all its faults has 100% support.

If they can pump out a PC with Internet, email, IM, office, video, music AND p2p <cough> but not official. All for a couple hundred bucks... They'll batter the hell out of MS, don't under estimate the number of people who want PCs for kids to do homework, or one to play movies and music.

Sadly it'll probably come down to one thing. DESIGN. If they do an Apple and make a sexy looking box, that does 95% of the average Windows users jobs transparently they'll be the top OS provider in 2 years

Rah, fear me crystal ball. Smile

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