google operating system
It's hard to type a blog post when one hand is being used to pat myself on the back.Last year about the just launched Chrome browser titled Meet Chrome, Google?s Windows Killer. From that article:
Chrome is nothing less than a full on desktop operating system that will compete head on with Windows¿Expect to see millions of web devices, even desktop web devices, in the coming years that completely strip out the Windows layer and use the browser as the only operating system the user needs.
One representative response to my quote above, In no way can this statement be construed to make sense, and I'm not just being a pedantic asshole here. Fortunately, El Reg readers are with it enough to know that you need a proper OS before you can have a browser."
Purists complained that a browser isn't actually an operating system, and brought up mundane issues about hardware drivers, memory and processor management, and other red herrings. Sure, they were right - the Chrome browser isn't an operating system. It is, you could say, sans the bag of drivers needed to meet the definition. Still, the writing was on the wall - Google quite as an operating system that competes with Windows.
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