Google Sitting on Cloud Nine
Google Chrome OS: Web Platform To Rule Them All With Chrome OS, Google aims to make the Web the primary platform for software development. By Thomas Claburn, InformationWeek, July 10, 2009 Google's plan to release its own operating system based on its Chrome browser is at once audacious and laughable. Microsoft Windows represents slightly less than 90% of the personal computer operating system market, a position it has held for years. . . . It's hard to imagine a less promising business for Google to enter, especially given that Google plans to give Chrome OS away for free. And Google's grand plan to shake up the operating system market isn't made more credible by the absence of any actual programming code or substantive information about Chrome OS. . . . Within a year or two, Web browsers will gain access to peripherals, through an infrastructure layer above the level of device drivers. Google's work with standards bodies is making that happen.
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