[real-eyes] internet exployer 7
- From: "kathie martin" <imarburger@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <real-eyes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 02:16:53 -0500
> Below is an interesting comment from a friend on another list. Jim, I see
> your point about cloud computing. I used to hope it would just go away.
> Then I got my Windows Secret newsletter this week and they were talking
> about a fire that took down their web host and they were moving their
> operation to the cloud so they would have fail over capabilities and not
> be dependent on a physical data center. I'm not sure how it's all going
> to work, but I bet it's headed there eventually.
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Scott Granados
> To: accesscomp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 11:41 AM
> Subject: [accesscomp] Re: Fw: google's new OS
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> Reg,
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> Good points but a few things to consider.
> Remember that Google's accessibility lead is blind so I think it's
> reasonable to think our community will receive attention. Just like in my
> company I bring up issues of accessible I'm sure someone hired with that
> goal in mind will make sure we're well represented.
> Next, google tends to be an open source company. This means unlike
> Microsoft you'll be able to get the source code with out having to enter
> in to complex licensing or development agreements. This means anyone with
> time and desire can write tools including screen readers and also means
> companies like FS or GW will have few barriers to market but it also means
> inventive graduate students or creative blind folks trying to get a foot
> hold can develop their own products.
> You already have Apple applying a lot of pressure in the accessibility
> space now, especially with phones so I think yet another OS will
> eventually lead to more competition. The only thing I worry about is
> there being to many options so no one company can survive but I personally
> would like to see companies like FS go by the way side and accessibility
> be handled just like any other OS feature much like Apple handles this
> now.
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> Just my $.02
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Reginald George
> To: accesscomp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx ; Adaptive technology information and
> support.
> Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 2009 9:15 AM
> Subject: [accesscomp] Fw: google's new OS
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> What really blows my mind in the below interesting 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.
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> Reg
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Shares of Google jumped $6.92, 1.8 percent, to $403.55 in morning trading
> Wednesday, while Microsoft fell 15 cents to $22.38.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Microsoft had no immediate comment Wednesday.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> "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."
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> 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.
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> Despite its own power and prominence, Google won't have an easy time
> changing the status quo that has governed personal computing.
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> 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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