Posted by Kevin Pike | Posted in Google | Posted on 02-12-2009
Tags: Google Chrome OS, Ubuntu
Those “I’m a PC ads” aren’t going to hold water against the onslaught Ubuntu will one day bring. Ubuntu is the most refined linux desktop OS to date and now Google and Ubuntu developers are working to make sure that Google Chrome will integrate perfectly.
Microsoft’s main threat:
What Google views as the future is wildly differing than what Microsoft does … it’s akin to the 1980’s on what Microsoft viewed as the desktop vs IBM.
Google feels that 99% of the people just use their computer to get online… hence Google OS / Chrome OS will allow them to get online, check their e-mail, go watch movies on Hulu, buy stuff on Amazon.com and update their Facebook and use Google Docs for wordprocessing..
Whereas Microsoft feels that everyone wants to store everything on their local machine.. where it cant’ be reached from another machine.. and where people are happy to fork over hundreds of dollars for Microsoft Office and love to use non-standard compliant IE as their browser.
This is going to be one heck of a battle, mostly because we feel that the overall cost of marketing and advertising will be MUCH lower for Google than for Microsoft…. mostly because 1 text link on Google’s homepage is worth more than any advertising ad agency could muster in a decade.
What’s at stake? Basically the future of computing… is it your desktop or the internet… What do you view as more important… or
If you had an “internet machine” that was half the cost of your normal computer… would you go for that option?
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