ChromeOS a win for Microsoft?

Aqua_lung said:
reaplayer was everywhere, it died out when better alternatives arrived, the same can happen with MS, nothing is impossible.
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Are you seriously comparing realplayer to windows?

Not sure if your being serious or joking :D

You must be joking though
 
killadoob said:
Are you seriously comparing realplayer to windows?

Not sure if your being serious or joking :D

You must be joking though
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If you were into pron back in the day you'd know it was far more important than windows. :p

But it's just an example, nothing is "too big to fail" ;)
 
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No i think windows is far too big to fail.

Think about how massive windows is, i would say it could installed on 1-3 billion + pc's, pirated or legal. That is not big man that is flippin epic.
 
Bismuth said:
Yeah, I don't miss RealPlayer, and I certainly won't miss MS if they die out. It will actually be a good then when that happens.

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How is that good? How many people does MS employ? How many people do they indirectly employ with their tech?

Sorry but I disagree, its never good when any company fails - too many lives effected.
 
killadoob said:
No i think windows is far too big to fail.

Think about how massive windows is, i would say it could installed on 1-3 billion + pc's, pirated or legal. That is not big man that is flippin epic.
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How many people worldwide have a GM car? all those opels? yet they failed.

See the difference here is that I'm actually using Linux and don't feel the need to use windows unless I need to game or use a windows exclusive app, MS will have a place for some time, nobody denies that but Linux is gonna be epic.
 
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Difference is it costs general motors far more too get their product out than windows does.

Once windows is complete and finished, how much do you think it costs for a disk and some packaging? Next to nothing. The development for the new windows would have been supplemented by the billions they made on the previous windows and office packages.

General motors is struggling because of poor management and low profit margins coupled with a bad economy. When their sales drop they lose massive amount of money due to the high cost of production and low profit margins.

There is no way you can compare the two, GM has also been in trouble for a long time, the recession nailed general motors.

Not everyone needs a new car but when you buy a new pc you generally buy it with windows, so microsoft has a market that is sustainable, GM are reliant on the market being good. while you can say not everyone needs a computer. A new computer is very cheap compared to a new car so computer sales would never take such a huge decline as we have seen with GM.

Look at the worlds economy, car companies are suffering badly, yet pc sales just keep going strong. With pc sales comes windows/office sales comes copious amounts of money.
 
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A few things wrong with this article:

ChromeOS is designed for Netbooks (at present) so there shouldn't be any mention of image processing, Gimp vs Photoshop etc, apply the same reasoning for gaming.

What we have here is an OS for a device designed to go online to be useful. In those terms it is a great idea. Everyone complaining that you cant play games on it are irrelevant for now, since you wouldn't get a netbook for gaming anyway, although I don't see why Google's O3D API can't give you gaming anyway, just don't expect Crysis quality out of it.

Now consider that netbooks are outselling PC's and laptops, and MS has a potentially huge problem on its hands if netbook manufacturers choose to put ChromeOS on their hardware and keep whatever they would have spent on a Windows licence for their own profit margins...
 
windoze will be around for some time, the other OS's will find their own little niche somewhere.
 
Oh this one is worth framing for week when Microsoft chokes on their arrogance.
 
One of the biggest issues I have with linux conversion is the corporate belief that "if windows breaks I can sue microsoft - who am I going to sue if linux breaks?" (let us leave the behind the ignorance of this argument for now).

At least with google backing this linux distro, this argument may be overcome.
 
And what will happen to all Ubuntu users/etc now?

I don't see Google OS beating MS.

Edit: Why don't people see Google in the same light as MS? Google is doing the same as MS. OS,Office and other applications. They are giving away software ... which will compete with other companies. (Like IExplorer vs Netscape)...
 
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Moederloos said:
One of the biggest issues I have with linux conversion is the corporate belief that "if windows breaks I can sue microsoft - who am I going to sue if linux breaks?" (let us leave the behind the ignorance of this argument for now).

At least with google backing this linux distro, this argument may be overcome.
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Sue WTF are you talking about? I have never heard anyone wanting to sue microsoft.

That is like saying i am going to sue ford if my car breaks down, makes absolutely no sense. O noes my VGA card just broke i better phone my lawyers and sue nvidia. My mobo also broke down, yay now i can sue gigabyte and nvidia together, all i would need now is my samsung to break and man o man i would be in the money :D
 
I think he meant, SLA, the code is suppose to be "secret" and support that you pay for. Very much like Redhat. (Linux kernel)
 
I'm speculating that Google is trying to eat away at M$ back-end. By making the front-end free. The latest Exchange will probably not work correctly in other browsers, where as Google's office + e-mail will. Do you see where I'm going with this? Microsoft tries to hide its technology. If Google gives the average Joe a Laptop with Chrome OS, that will work 100% with Gmail and not his employers preferred Exchange. Then the employers might shift in thinking that perhaps we should move our email hosting over to Google. Google would then compete 1:1 with M$ in the Cloud Computing Space.

If there is no need for Exchange in your employers environment, what else do you need M$ for? If Google's Chrome browser support standards where as M$ don't. Google can go ahead and change the back-end entirely and the employers realise that most of their back-end don't need to be M$ any more. Google will offer an alternative Eco System where you will probably have suites/framework catered for Google development. You will probably also start seeing other companies have Gold or Platinum partnership with Google.
 
chubster said:
I'm speculating that Google is trying to eat away at M$ back-end. By making the front-end free. The latest Exchange will probably not work correctly in other browsers, where as Google's office + e-mail will. Do you see where I'm going with this? Microsoft tries to hide its technology. If Google gives the average Joe a Laptop with Chrome OS, that will work 100% with Gmail and not his employers preferred Exchange. Then the employers might shift in thinking that perhaps we should move our email hosting over to Google. Google would then compete 1:1 with M$ in the Cloud Computing Space.

If there is no need for Exchange in your employers environment, what else do you need M$ for? If Google's Chrome browser support standards where as M$ don't. Google can go ahead and change the back-end entirely and the employers realise that most of their back-end don't need to be M$ any more. Google will offer an alternative Eco System where you will probably have suites/framework catered for Google development. You will probably also start seeing other companies have Gold or Platinum partnership with Google.
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I honestly can't see companies use Cloud computing for MISSION Critical data even , their emails.

I have seen the mail server go down for 1 minute, and people freak out. They phone the IT department to fix. You going to phone google to fix a cloud computing issue?
 
chubster said:
The same could be said at Window's Cloud Computing. They will be hosting your exchange and online Web Office.
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True.. that is why i said cloud computing (not google specific).

But maybe it's because we in SA not used to "web" apps. (We'll mission critical).
 
Aqua_lung said:
reaplayer was everywhere, it died out when better alternatives arrived, the same can happen with MS, nothing is impossible.
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Indeed and the same can be said for IBM when Windows came along! Nothing is quite set in stone, technology is constantly evolving, and I think MS is slowly being left behind.
 
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