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December 21, 2007

Get ready for the Google Operating System

It would not shock me if there was an announcement next year that Google was going to put into beta an operating system on Linux, an open-source system, or something like it.

The statement is among eight predictions related to Google's Future endeavors.

Yes, Google is trying to change the rule .... from the NY Times:

The growing confrontation between Google and Microsoft promises to be an epic business battle. It is likely to shape the prosperity and progress of both companies, and also inform how consumers and corporations work, shop, communicate and go about their digital lives. Google sees all of this happening on remote servers in faraway data centers, accessible over the Web by an array of wired and wireless devices — a setup known as cloud computing. Microsoft sees a Web future as well, but one whose center of gravity remains firmly tethered to its desktop PC software. Therein lies the conflict.

Google introduced a package of online software offerings, called Google Apps, that includes e-mail, instant messaging, calendars, word processing and spreadsheets. They are simpler versions of the pricey programs that make up Microsoft’s lucrative Office business, and Google is offering them free to consumers.

Posted by Vital at December 21, 2007 10:24 AM