[real-eyes] Re: internet exployer 7
- From: "kathie martin" <imarburger@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <real-eyes@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2009 18:41:34 -0500
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>> 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.
>>
>> ----- 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,
>>
>> 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
>>
>>
>> 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.
>>
>> 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.
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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.
>>
>> 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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