[real-eyes] Re: Fw: google's new OS

  • From: "Jim Ellsworth" <jellsworth1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <real-eyes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 8 Jul 2009 12:51:06 -0400

I agree with Jim.  Also not everyone is wanting to embrace cloud computing.
If you for some reason lose internet access you won't have access to your
data and businesses might not want to take that chance.

Thanks,
Jim 

-----Original Message-----
From: real-eyes-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:real-eyes-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Fettgather, Jim
Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 12:33 PM
To: real-eyes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [real-eyes] Re: Fw: google's new OS

Windows 7, the last version of Windows?
I hardly think so, Windows 8 is already in the planning stages.

http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=2559 


Having said that, accessibility is of course a high priority and concern to
these new evolving operating systems.


-----Original Message-----
From: Reginald George [mailto:sgeorge@xxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 11:14 AM
To: real-eyes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [real-eyes] Fw: google's new OS

What really blows my mind in the below article,  is the difference in the
stock price.  Could a computing sea change be on the way?  If computing
fragments and everyone starts using their own favorite operating systems
what will this do for standards and accessibility?
Microsoft has said in the past that Windows 7 would be the last version of
Windows.  Much computing is supposed to be moving to the cloud.  At the end
they say that people have tried to compete with Windows in the past and
failed.  But they didn't have a billion dollar company behind them.  Google
needs to have continuing pressure applied from the VI community around the
issues of accessibility.  The Chrome browser hasn't been accessible at all
to this point.  But they have promised to address accessibility in the
future.  they really need to address it now.  Just my thoughts.  


Reg











LLEY, Idaho (AP) -- Google Inc. is working on a new operating system for
inexpensive computers in a daring attempt to diminish Microsoft Corp.'s
longstanding control over people's computer experience.

The new operating system, announced Tuesday night on Google's Web site, will
be based on the company's 9-month-old Web browser, Chrome. Google intends to
rely on help from the community of open-source programmers to develop the
Chrome operating system, which is expected to begin running computers in the
second half of 2010.

Shares of Google jumped $6.92, 1.8 percent, to $403.55 in morning trading
Wednesday, while Microsoft fell 15 cents to $22.38.

Google is designing the operating system primarily for "netbooks," a
lower-cost, less powerful breed of laptop computers that is becoming
increasingly popular among budget-conscious consumers primarily interested
in surfing the Web.

Google has already introduced an operating system for smart phones and other
mobile devices, called Android, that vies against various other systems,
including ones made by Microsoft and Apple Inc.

The Android system worked well enough to entice some computer makers to
begin developing netbooks that will run on it. For instance, Acer Inc., the
world's third-largest PC maker, said last month it would make netbooks that
run Android instead of Windows. Acer said Android would make the computers
less expensive and possibly help them boot up faster.

Google, though, apparently believes a Chrome-based system will be better
suited for netbooks.

That is a direct challenge to Microsoft, whose next operating system,
Windows 7, is being geared for netbooks as well as larger computers. And it
would be Google's boldest confrontation yet with its biggest nemesis.

Microsoft had no immediate comment Wednesday.

A duel between the two technology powerhouses has been steadily escalating
in recent years as Google's dominance of the Internet's lucrative search
market has given it the means to threaten Microsoft in ways that few other
companies can.

Google already has rankled Microsoft by luring some of its top employees and
developing an online package of computer programs that provide an
alternative to Microsoft's top-selling word processing, spreadsheet and
calendar applications.

Meanwhile, Microsoft has been trying to thwart Google by investing billions
of dollars to improve its own Internet search and advertising systems - to
little avail so far.

In the past month or so, though, Microsoft has been winning positive reviews
and picking up more users with the latest upgrade to its search engine, now
called Bing. Microsoft is hailing the makeover with a $100 million marketing
campaign.

Now Google is aiming for Microsoft's financial jugular with Chrome its
operating system.

Microsoft has drawn much of its power - and profits - from the Windows
operating system that has steered most personal computers for the past two
decades.

Google's chief executive, Eric Schmidt, and its co-founders, Larry Page and
Sergey Brin, have not concealed their disdain for Windows.

Schmidt maintains Microsoft sometimes unfairly rigs its operating system to
limit consumer choices - something that Microsoft has consistently denied
doing. Google fears Microsoft could limit access to its search engine and
other products if Windows is set up to favor Microsoft products.

Google made a veiled reference to Windows' perceived shortcomings in its
blog posting Tuesday.

"We hear a lot from our users and their message is clear - computers need to
get better," wrote Sundar Pichai, Google's vice president of product
management and Linus Upson, Google's engineering director. "We believe
choice will drive innovation for the benefit of everyone, including Google."

Schmidt and Brin are expected to discuss Google's new operating system this
week when they appear at a media conference hosted by Allen & Co.
at the Sun Valley resort in Idaho.

Despite its own power and prominence, Google won't have an easy time
changing the status quo that has governed personal computing.

As an example of how difficult it is to topple a long-established market
leader, Google estimates about 30 million people are now using its Chrome
browser - a small fraction of those that rely on Microsoft's market-leading
Internet Explorer. And there have been various attempts to develop
open-source software to undermine Windows on PCs, with relatively little
effect.

 

 

 

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