Google to launch operating system

[mensa180]

Actually google has already launched a full OS, android is very capable of running PC. In fact I'd guess that whatever is in the works is android based...

You code in java(googlebutchered) for android, it recognizes some native C but it's really java is the way to go.  I think they would have to make Android C/Python compatible to succeed. 

Or maybe I just don't like thinking of anything to do with java after working with it for hours on end for days at a time .

My phone has the android OS and I make apps for it.  Fun but frustrating. 

I have not seen Android on PCs, on netbooks, but no PCs yet.

Even an Xbox, but still no PC .  I'm sure they will get it in time, it really is a nifty OS.

[MrRiplEy[H]]

Linux can already do 95% of the required typical desktop work. Only certain specialized applications can't run on it. Cad, CRM etc.

Linux has alternative options for them but I don't know how compatible they are. It only takes a problem with 1 file to wreck a lot of things.

[Skuzzy]

Linux is definitely a better alternative to Google's idea of an operating system.  Did I mention how disappointed I was with the course they chose?

Hundred's of systems programmers and this is the best they can do?  They must have hired applications programmers instead of true systems programmers.  If it were me and they told me that is the direction they would be taking, I would have turned in my notice.

Few people today, have any idea what a real operating system is.  The various UNIX's are the only ones left that are real operating systems.  The rest, including anything from Microsoft, are operating system wannabes.  Anyone arguing that point would fit into the "clueless" category.

I was really hoping for some serious competition from Google, but this is just a joke.  A bad joke.  Although I bet the folks at Microsoft are laughing their butts off.

[Ghastly]

Me too.   

I'm so tired of having to live "tech" in a world where I have no (realistic) desktop choice but an operating system that somehow morphed out of a single user, single tasking DOS application (which was butt-ugly to boot!). 

I remember the first time I saw Windows (2.0) which we needed to learn to use to manage something (a Netframe? I believe...) and thinking to myself how thankful I was that it was an utter edit-> monstrosity<-edit doomed to failure and I'd not have to worry about it in a year.  I've been wrong a lot of times over the years - but never more wrong than that. 

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Sorry, Denholm - I wasn't even thinking of the current connotations of the original word. <S>

[Denholm]

...I remember the first time I saw Windows (2.0) which we needed to learn to use to manage something (a Netframe? I believe...) and thinking to myself how thankful I was that it was an utter abortion doomed to failure and I'd not have to worry about it in a year...

Nothing quite like a little polish.

[OOZ662]

Nothing quite like a little polish.

Heeey...

[MrRiplEy[H]]

They are pushing this cloud computing idea here in private sector too. The local ISP is launching a service where people can subscribe to an account in a mainframe and use everything through the included thin client. Claiming it will free users from virus trouble, maintenance etc.

Excellent idea - it will tie the users to mandatory monthly payment plan also if they want to keep their stuff. Well, excellent for the service provider and nobody else.