It Will Be Windows 7 SP1 to Go Against Google Chrome OS
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Tip: Click here to update all your PC's outdated driversIn the second half of 2010 Microsoft’s client operating system will have a new rival platform hungry for a piece of its market share.
The Linux-based Google Chrome OS will be generally available to customers worldwide in H2 2010, and it will fall not on Windows 7 RTM, but on Windows 7 Service Pack 1 to neutralize the new threat. However, so far Microsoft seems little worried about the upcoming Chrome OS from the Mountain View-based search giant; it seems poised to take netbooks by storm in approximately one year.
Microsoft General Manager Charles Songhurst revealed confidence in Windows 7’s quality and inherent ability to hold its ground against Chrome OS, via Beyond Binary. According to Songhurst, Google will have to do a lot more than simply offer a new, cheaper, Linux flavor, rebranded as Chrome OS. The GM pointed out that the only way that Chrome OS would represent a threat to Windows 7 was if it was sensibly better than the latest iteration of the Windows client.
The Windows 7 general availability deadline is set for October 22nd, 2009. Microsoft traditionally takes approximately one year to develop the first service pack for a Windows client release. In this context, by the end of 2010, early 2011 at the latest, the Redmond company will have already offered end users SP1 for Windows 7. Complete with SP1, Windows 7 will have a number of advantages over Chrome OS, including the maturity of the platform, client-side software support and hardware compatibility. In fact, even if the battle is “raged” on netbooks, Chrome OS is bound to do little more than establish a beach head on Windows territory.
Microsoft itself is also negotiating with original equipment manufacturers to preload Windows 7 on netbooks and additional new machines. According to the Redmond company, on average, for each OEM copy of Windows sold, it receives approximately $50. Microsoft is not saying just how much it is currently charging OEMs for the copies of Windows XP that are pre-installed on netbooks, with speculation indicating a figure considerably smaller than $50, namely about $15. Such a low sum for each copy of Windows on netbooks indeed makes the advantage of a free Chrome OS irrelevant.
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Comments(11)
although chrome is interesting and i'm eager to get my hands on it, i seriously doubt
that version 1.0 will be a match for windows 7.
chrome 2.0 maybe, 3.0 oh
yeah.
we shall see.
cd
much, too much is being made of google chrome os. it's classic vaporware. google
can't even officially get their browser ported to os x. just because they are cash rich
does not mean they will be able to get a working os in a year.
you got to be kidding! an os that has never seen the light of day is by no means ready to
take anything away from anyone. linux couldn't even make it as a generally available
desktop os preloaded on systems. it will take google 10 years to even see any sort of
return on money spent on this low level os. there is no way it could even come close to
catching linux much less microsoft. they can't even get their android phone in the
mainstream. it's all a waste of their shareholders money. google needs to do what they do
best; search engine. microsoft is even taking bits and pieces of that away. they are
losing focus. they just don't have the structured infrastructure to handle all they are
trying to do, and this will cause them to lose unnecessary millions of their shareholders
money.
google is trying to take over the (advertising) world, and i hope they fail.
they were kind of fun in the beginning, but now i've grown weary of all their crap.
stick to the search engine, google, you're gettin' on my nerves.
i so totally agree with you.
i don't think chrome os will be able to compete with microsoft windows os..
due to
variety of softwares for microsoft are already available in the market. in order for
chrome to compete with microsoft they must have some kind of compatibility support to run
microsoft softwares in chrome os...
for the time being i think chrome os will be just like another linux in the market
if google os becomes a solid gaming platform, then it will be a threat to windows 7+.
otherwise, it is just another *nix flavour competing mainly in the netbook market. in the
office neither will be mainstream as long as windows xp exists.
that's pointless, the fact that a sp1 is out won't make people buy it just for it. it
would be actually better if windows 7 woulnd't need any sp, so that way people will think
that ms has evolved in such a way that they don't longer need to be patching their
systems, it would be like "ms released a perfect os this time", just release updates, no
spacks!
maybe they port it to cell phone!
than maybe, they will become a threat
to
microsoft mobile os!
i just saw it, is it any good??
i mean android??
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By Chris on 16.09.2009 - 22:09