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 Posted: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 12:55:14 Post Subject: What Would Microsoft Do if Google Invented an OS? |
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| Quote: | | There are some companies Microsoft is determined to defeat. The funny thing is that, despite what you might think, we are not talking about Linux, but about companies which will make lots of money out of fields not related to operating systems. |
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| Posted: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 04:21:46 Post Subject: |
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| Hellfire wrote: | Google has considered, possibly even have on it's roadmap. Wouldn't be a bad thing for many instances, especially most home systems.
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Remember that google makes it's money on advertising, dumping money in to repackaging some flavor of *nix would bring back very little return, sticking with allpurpose , free or mostly free O/S neutral web apps, provides the most AD/traffic directing revenue. |
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No doubt Google has some big projects in mind, take a look at the HUGE area at moffett field they intend to develop
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/9521247/
but I doubt it's an O/S they're after.
Even MS is learning that it takes a lot of money to design a new modern O/S from the ground up. |
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edvallie
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CHollman82
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| Posted: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 12:50:21 Post Subject: |
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| T-shirt wrote: | | Even MS is learning that it takes a lot of money to design a new modern O/S from the ground up. |
Ummm, they are "learning" that? Maybe you have forgotten but MS has led the pack in OS design since windows 3.1 back in the 80's. I think if any group of people on the planet knows what it takes to make a good modern OS, it's Microsofts development team... |
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