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Port games over? The OS vendor does not port games over, they don't own the source code (it would be illegal for them to port without owning it or getting permission). When there are millions of these boxes out there, and people see these things generating a good percentage of web hits (websites know which browser types are visiting), then the game vendors will write their games to run on these boxes (within the limits of the hardware). That's why all of the pc games are written for Windows (huge market share).

Google may also be taking the Apple approach to PC's. Sell the OS and hardware as a bundle with all the components tested. This is once again an advantage of MS's market share. When (insert company name here) comes out with a piece of hardware, that manufacturer is going to insure that device works in Windows, not MS.

The difference between Google and Apple would be that Google will probably let you download and play with their OS with no strings attached (it is Linux after all), they will even probably support you with wiki's and the like.

 
[citation][nom]smfrazz[/nom]Why do folks like Apple and Google get such credit for writing an OS when they did nothing but reskin Linux? Come on if they are that great why not build one from the ground up?[/citation]

Why build a new kernel when the linux kernel (Google's OS) and the Unix kernel (OSX) are so widely support and advanced? Putting all linux/unix based distributions in the same boat and saying the developers of the distributions don't add too much is a very ignorant statement.
 
to those who are saying something about gaming.

If this make a boom in the market
let me tell you, this is going to have as much games as windows..
 
[citation][nom]smfrazz[/nom]Why do folks like Apple and Google get such credit for writing an OS when they did nothing but reskin Linux? [/qutoe]
Man, there's so much more to making an operating system than "reskinnning" the kernel. Why don't you try building a usable desktop Linux-based OS from scratch and tell us if it amounts to little more than "reskinning" anything.
 
[citation][nom]aracheb[/nom]to those who are saying something about gaming.If this make a boom in the market let me tell you, this is going to have as much games as windows..[/citation]
Apple has already had "a boom in the market" and nobody buys a Mac for gaming. Besides, this OS isn't even targeted at game-worth machines as of yet.
 
[citation][nom]aracheb[/nom]to those who are saying something about gaming.If this make a boom in the market let me tell you, this is going to have as much games as windows..[/citation]

The games aren't going to be the games that you are expecting though. Polar bear bowling doesn't count as a game to me.
 
So what compelling benefit does this offer over existing Linux based netbooks? There is a reason that XP is on the majority of them today: people want it.

The only thing Google brings to the table is their name. I doubt that that alone is going to be enough to convince any large number of people to abandon the familiarity of Windows.
 
As I said in a previous post, most all computers today are made to be an "all around" machine. They can surf the web, type papers, play games, edit video, burn dvd's, download music, watch movies, edit photos and a whole bunch of other stuff. They are made for everything. So...think of it as a family doctor, its well rounded. (For the sake of an example)

BUT, with this new OS, it deals and is focused primarily on the web. Searching for information, checking e-mail, updating Facebook, reading blogs, articles, editing your webpage and whatever else you can do that's related to the internet. Possibly web conferences, meetings or whatever. So, you could say that this "doctor" has a specialty. It's going to excel in this function more then the "family doctors" (regular PC's).

Google isn't asking people to get rid of Windows. What they're doing is giving companies another option when it comes to what OS they want their employees to use when on the road. Or, for people who aren't so proficient with computers and just want to be able to get online and check their e-mails and read up on the newest articles on their favorite website.

This OS is made specifically for people who are on the move and spend most of their time on the web. Nothing more. Nothing less. They made this OS to excel in the web. Hell, that's basically the ONLY thing that it's advertised. They didn't make it for games, movies, music, photos, graphics design or anything else. It's for the web.

Now, that's not to say that it can't do some of those things. Music and movies are a given. As well as photos and some other media. But, they aren't going to deviate from the sole purpose of the OS, which is the internet.

I mean it's Google for crying out loud. Why on Earth would Google develop an OS that can play Crysis with max settings, or able to run Adobe Premiere with no hiccups? Google is sticking with what it knows best. The internet.

And with this OS it's faster, its cheaper, its more compatible and it's simple. End of story.
 
I've always said that if google made a web browser, it will revolutionize the internet experience. I've also always said that if Google makes an OS, it will change the computer world. Lets just hope they go beyond netbooks.
 
[citation][nom]gamebrigada[/nom]I've always said that if google made a web browser, it will revolutionize the internet experience. I've also always said that if Google makes an OS, it will change the computer world. Lets just hope they go beyond netbooks.[/citation]

Um, has Chrome actually revolutionized anything yet?
 
Lol seriously. What has been revolutionized? I think that you need to understand the word revolutionize first. It means to bring a drastic change. Reporting news on TV instead of newspapers is revolutionary. Chrome browser...no.

It has the EXACT same functions that Firefox has. It looks the same, the tabs are pretty much the same, security is mostly the same, DL's are the same.

Features of Chrome browser: Your history is shown a bit differently. It shows the pages instead of telling you the URL. WOW!!! It has a big pop up when you might be going to a bad site. OMG! NO WAI! And what's this??!? It shows you a DL at the bottom and you can run it from the browser? AMAZING!!!

Firefox has been there and done all of that. As well as IE 7 and whatever other browsers. There's nothing new about Chrome for the most part, so I have no idea what you're talking about when you say that it's revolutionized the "internet experience". Lol.

And actually, it consumes more processing since each tab runs independently from the other. And last time I checked, more computing from one programs = bad.
 
ah yes but the sole purpose of Chrome was to make the OTHER browsers better. It's not aiming to be the best, rather, its intending to raise the bar for ALL browsers, which it has. Look at firefox 3.5, they saw chromes javascript engine, realised they needed to do it, then did it. 3.5 is as fast as it is because chrome forced them to

That is chromes goal, and it is achieving it.
 
So...Google paid developers hundreds of thousands of dollars for designing, creating, testing, advertising and tweaking Chrome so it would set a bar for other browsers so those companies would copy what they did so users would be able to stick with their current browser and not switch to Chrome? Gotcha.
 
[citation][nom]freak77power[/nom]Infact Ubunty already did what Google is trying to do, but i guess has no that Google sticker on it. It reminds me of President Obama syndrom and election when a lot of people thought they will become 'rich' when President Obama gets elected.[/citation]

Don't be such an idiot. The only thing Windows has going for it is that Microsoft uses anti-competition marketing and gets it's OS onto nearly every desktop PC. If the other companies had a fairer market share and software companies produced software for all OS's most people would realise how poor Windows is compared to OS X and Linux.

Unfortunately most people, including me, are too lazy to run Windows software on Linux (it's possible), or don't know much about computers and stick with the OS that their computer came with (the majority of Vista users). If I had 2 computers I'd install Linux on one of them faster than Vista takes to boot.

The fact is Linux is more secure (it's Unix based), faster, free, and if you can bother to learn how it works (early steps of hacking) it's much better.
 
Also people need to understand that this isn't targeted at gaming computers. It's targeted at Netbooks, because they're less powerful than almost all computers, and they're normally used for simple tasks like email and surfing the web. If you have a slow desktop and all you want to do are simple tasks like email and surfing, than this could be for you also. Or if your children want a computer for, you guessed it, simple tasks than this could be a good way of putting an old computer to use instead of throwing it away.
 
calmstateofmind, their web-centric OS won't be limited like most people interpreted it.
functionality will not be less compared to WinXP or Linux Ubuntu, except it will be generally simpler and faster to use. (which we don't yet how)
simply, what users can do today on ubuntu netbooks should also be possible on the Google OS.

regarding topic, this will put MS on full alert since manufacturers will prefer the free OS if it proves to good enough, if not better, with customers.
 
the problem for games on other OS is Microsoft directx.. if games can made using open source o multiplataform like opencl or opengl.. any game on any os!!
 
I personally see no reason to use Windows on a netbook. I want windows on a heavier (performance based) laptop or my desktop. For a netbook, linux works just fine. Ubuntu is alread extremely easy to use and simple to familarize yourself with. The only game I would play on a netbook likely would be Warcraft 3 or Savage, which are both linux supported games anyways and a netbook could likely take.

[citation][nom]IronRyan21[/nom]M$ takes shot at Google's Search Engine (Bing). Google takes shot at M$ bread and butter (Chrome OS). It will be interesting to see what this will look like in 10 years.[/citation]

Agreed. Time to sit back and wait.
 
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