Google has been making public its aspirations for Chrome OS in the past few days. Reading between the lines, it's pretty clear that it hopes to replace Microsoft as the chief supplier of enterprise desktop operating systems in the coming decade. Talking at a press event in Singapore last week, Caesar Sengupta, Google's product management director for the Chrome OS project, said the company is counting on wooing smaller businesses first because they tend to "behave like consumers." Google envisions that larger enterprises will adopt the company's model later, as they become more comfortable with the cloud. Here's why the plan will probably work: 1. Google has more money than you can shake a stick at, and it can use as much as it likes to make this happen 2. Google is well on the way to replicating all the key things Microsoft did to get where it is today The first point is pretty straightforward. Google is making billions every year from its advertising business, and this positive cash flow shows no signs of abating — far from it. 'Nuff said.
Wow, guys... how about showing us how Microsoft's ads would be, you know, more effective? That would shut him up in pretty short order.
Operating systems are not about money mainly, it is collection of knowledge and experience, this will need 10s of years. Linux is a free OS, and has a lot of fans, but so far they fail to hit any side of Microsoft OS. I am myself, I work in embedded systems, I preferred to use the costly Windows CE rather than the free embedded Linux for our platform. Microsoft is a very smart enterprise, they know exactly what they are doing. Google, they find themselves winners in a field, they think they can win in any field they enter.
Interesting concept, last I heard Bill is taking a step down, and Google still owns 60% of the search results, Yahoo and Microsoft still have a long way to go ebefore they can defeat Google, I wish them luck, because Google is becoming draconian, but honestly I don't see it happening
For a while, we wondered which of Google and Microsoft would be the leader, nowadays we know that Google won the race.
I think Google's next step is eliminating any use of any OS, that's the whole concept of their choromebooks. If they succeed - MSFT are dead...