Google Android, a Windows 7 netbook killer?
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Tip: Click here to update all your PC's outdated driversRumours are spreading that Google is in talks with leading netbook producers to offer a version of Android in anticipation of competing with Microsoft's own Windows 7, an operating system designed to be flexible enough to target everything from the basic netbook market to high-end gaming PCs.
The Wall Street Journal is reporting that HP and others are working with Google to develop netbooks starring Android.
Claims that Google would be getting into the operating systems business go back at least three years, but the current rumours could well prove to be true. Android is well developed, some key players appear to be in place, and the Google name resonates more strongly with the public. It could even mean a serious challenge to Microsoft's mindshare.
The original ASUS offerings in the market provided an XP-themed version of Linux, Firefox, and OpenOffice.org, and so gave consumers the basics they needed to get what most of them needed to get done. Microsoft fought back with a modified (and cheaper) version of XP to appeal to those comfortable with that OS. However, while such an offering has proved popular on netbooks, some consumers have seen the true costs of going with the familiar: in particular, no office software installed by default.
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Comments(6)
héhéhéh, what a good joke...
anyone who think a new operating system can come in and take any market share from anyone
that has any kind of track record is nuts.... and on top of that any computer manufacture
that would taunt this is positioning them for ultimate failure. google’s android is just
barely hanging in there as a mobile phone operating system. it's a good thing they have a
gazillion dollars behind them to feed their market.
i've been with google for many years mainly with search engine but never come across
android talk that much.
i believe that no matter what new operating systems
come out they have a hard challenge in front of them capturing any market share.
convenience is the key to marketing os. if an os is easy to use and easy to manage
then it will be liked by society.
a joke for some of us but could be a big big threat to microsoft... i agree that no one
can take the software market, espedially the os, that easy, with just launching it over
the net without loosing 'gazillion' dollars first... but as far as i know, google has
already build his name and conquers the internet and software market, specially on free
and fastest search engine, free giga size web mail, free sophisticated internet browser
and possibly free, secure, and safe google android soon...
most people wants
new look, therefore lets wait and see for what is google move....
if android os will run windows based software then microsoft will shit bricks... by the
dozen.......
wait until they have it running properly on one the g's, then we'll talk.
idiots!
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Google Android, a Windows 7 netbook killer?
By olivierb on 07.04.2009 - 23:04