Thread: Google announces chrome OS. This is real big!
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2009-07-08 , 06:33
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Originally Posted by sachin007 View Post
Well what happened to hotmail and yahoo mail. Almost all my friends and relatives switched to gmail leaving yahoo mail and yahoo messenger.

If the level of innovation is similar and it is free and open source... what would stop users from switching?
Program Compatibility.

Unless the new Google OS can run Windows and Mac programs just as fast, or can actually run them, as their respective OS's can, THEN I could see that happening, but as we've seen with other OS's, namely Linux, it won't happen. Linux is free & open source, but you don't see a HORDE of people switching over to Linux. Even if backed by a big company like Google. Make Windows/Mac/Linux programs all run under one OS and you will rule the OS world.

Here you go, taken from the Google Blog itself:
The software architecture is simple — Google Chrome running within a new windowing system on top of a Linux kernel.
Link:http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/...chrome-os.html

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