Gates Talks About Google's Chrome OS

[okibrian]

[citation][nom]brando56894[/nom]So you would rather go to a store and pay for software rather than download it (and possibly compile it) for free from the comfort of your own home? That sounds kind of dumb to me.


I'm not saying that. I'm saying that is what they would need to do to get the support of the masses. Support of masses means you would take over the number one spot from MS. I didn't think it was that hard to get. Having lots of software supporting your OS in retail stores would attract a lot more people to it. Again, we are talking masses here. Why would my mother or father or 90% of the people out there care about what they could compile?? They just want to turn on "that there box" and use it. It sounds pretty dumb to me that you cannot get that. I do like Linux too, but as long as we have people thinking as you do it will never be more than an OS for geeks and MS will continue to be in the overwhelming majority of homes and businesses. That is why they will always get away with charging MS prices.

 

[rooseveltdon]

[citation][nom]mrkenan[/nom]I don't care if it's "just another dressed up Linux OS." I just want to have something that works and I think that there are probably a lot of other people out there that share my opinion. The fact that it will be free gives people more incentive to at least try it out and that is what MS has to worry about.[/citation]
Lol oh yeah? there are hundreds of linux distros out there better than this chrome and they are all free....yeah microsoft is safe.

 

[anonymousdude]

The problem with most Linux distros is that they are not user friendly and use terms that 90% of the population don't understand That's why Windows is still on top. If Google can make this as user friendly and have drivers for components then it will be an alternative to windows, but not a Windows replacement.

 

[salem80]

Linux community must say to google "unite us"

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[caskachan]

unix i strong, and from it derived 100's of the now graphical unix bsed oses theyre great, but ms, still conquers most worlds computers i HOPE this os, is x86 comaptible, hell if it runs all pc apps, it would dominate XD, but yeah, we are all aiting for anu unix based stuff to run x86 /games seamesly

 

[kartu]

[citation][nom]pocketdrummer[/nom]We're talking about an OS here, not a browser.[/citation]
We actually have no idea, what we are talking about.
Besides, both Chrome browser and Chrome OS are just old, developed by someone else, packages, slightly adapted by Google.

 

[Guest]

What would happen to Google Chrome OS if it is to be exported Europe and becomes dominant there.?????????????.

 

[jcknouse]

[citation][nom]kartu[/nom]We actually have no idea, what we are talking about. Besides, both Chrome browser and Chrome OS are just old, developed by someone else, packages, slightly adapted by Google.[/citation]

Well, all Windows Vista was is XP with a new GUI desktop and window style and a few new satellite apps on a even-further bloated .NET framework 3.0.

Microsoft hasn't re-invented much of anything in the OS arena in years. That's why their OS is so bloated and slow compared to Linux.

I hope Windows 7 is truly a performance/boot/ease-of-use improvement. Vista was slower (especially after each patch), the menuing was less intuitive, and if you go back and look at Vista's original windowing layout (as was shown on Toms way back when) their window style (down to the button look and window frames) was exactly like KDE 3.5.

[citation][nom]Salem80[/nom]Linux community must say to google "unite us".[/citation]

That's what I hope comes out of this...That Chrome OS kinda of focuses the Linux community toward some common goals.

Namely, I'd like to see native support for Windows DirectX so that going with WineX or Cedega isn't necessary for gaming...and then get companies can be inspired to develop games with engines that cross-compile and they can release both Windows and Linux versions on the same DVD or BD disc.

 

[mrkenan]

[citation][nom]rooseveltdon[/nom]Lol oh yeah? there are hundreds of linux distros out there better than this chrome and they are all free....yeah microsoft is safe.[/citation]

The average user has no clue that those other variants exist. Furthermore none of those other variants have Google behind them. I'm not saying that MS is going to lose their majority market share, I'm just saying that Chrome OS could offer some competition. Just the fact that MS made a statement about it shows that they are going to have their eye on it.

 

[coolkev99]

I'm not a big fan of "the could". I'm not a big fan of google.

 

[coolkev99]

[citation][nom]Salem80[/nom]Linux community must say to google "unite us".[/citation]

I doubt the Linux community could ever unite.

 

[p05esto]

I've hated Google for 2.5 years. Their arrogance irritates me greatly. MS now feels more genuine and underdogish. Google should be respecting, learning and working with MS to improve computing - not be so hauty as to go against them constantly and think they will succeed. Like AMD getting high on itself, Intel simply woke up and put the hammer down on that out of control child. Intel barely had to break sweat. Same with MS, they fell asleep for a bit but once the dog awakes they will bite.

 

[Guest]

WINDOWS 7 IS A VISTA DRESSED... LINUX RUN SUPER FASSSSSSSSST/ MICROSOFT HANGED ON HIS BALLS

 

[scryer_360]

So long as Chrome ships DRM free, doesn't contain anything related to "we own the content" clauses concerning content we upload, AND (a big 'and') they have good compatibility with drivers for commonly used PC components, then yes, the OS will be successful.

But if its just another Linux distro that requires you to write your own drivers, it will be shit.

 

[brando56894]

I doubt DirectX will ever be natively integrated into linux, because if it was Microsoft would lose their foothold on the gaming market which is one of the major reasons why computer savvy people still dual-boot windows and linux. Although ReactOS that I mentioned before is developing a program called ReactX which is an open-source alternative to DirectX.

I was reading an article earlier about complaints windows users have about linux and it pretty much boiled down to something along the lines of "it's not windows and it doesn't act like windows so I don't like it". If someone made a linux distrobution that mimiced window xp or windows 7 to be an almost GUI clone people would probably love it, thinking that its actually windows when in reality it's actually linux. Most people don't care what the underlying system of anything really is all they want is something that works out of the box and if it's easy to use.

Most people have been conditioned to use windows, it's pretty much everywhere and it's what they're used to. It's hard to change something like that after you've been using it for x amount of years. Now if you taught someone that was brand new to computing and the internet (a child or an elderly person) and taught them on an easy distro like Ubuntu they would probably love it since they have no prior assumptions on how something should work.

 

[Guest]

The hardware driver pool necessary to compete with Windows (any of their versions) was never close to being as big as Windows. What this does is force that special hardware (with no Linux driver)into a Windows only application. It is no small task to write these drivers so the hardware will work without a glitch. Linux is coming on strong but mostly for the common hardware and computer functions. That is why the MAC is so nice for common application users but never there for that weird special application. Google may be better buying APPLE and using that to start with....but I see the computer world through an INDUSTRIAL computing viewpoint so it is not like the google goggles of the chrome os people. I need repeatability...and after an update ...I still need that same repeatability, Windows does this.