OT Chrome OS next year

[Mario Guenterberg]

On Do, Jul 09, 2009 at 01:46:49 +0200, Odd wrote:
> I don't remember Microsoft being hailed or praised for their rather
> crappy offerings in that timeframe. MS-DOS and Windows pre-W95
> was the most popular, but not because their quality. There were
> much better OSes at the time, such as AmigaOS. I used to cringe
> when having to use MS software, being used to real preemptive
> multitasking and a superior GUI since 1985. Now, Commodore
> went belly-up but that was because those in charge made crappy
> business decisions. Apple too made questionable business
> decisions and lost out to MS. The world would be a much
> different place today, if Commodore or Apple hadn't screwed
> themselves so thoroughly back then.

The time Microsoft released the DOS or WIN (whatever versions) in
the 80's the merketing machinery working very different from now.
The release for WIN 3.11 was praise as a milestone, so I remember.
If it was a milestone; that's another question.
So only OS, besides DOS or WIN, that was used in companies 
was MacOS, at least in companies for they I worked 
at this time.

> MS didn't have a half-way decent end-user OS until W2K, when
> they merged their NT codebase with the GUI from W95. The
> result was at last an OS that didn't deserve universal derision.

No one has spoken about the quality of an OS. 
The quality of the upcoming Google OS? That remains to be seen.

> As for Google, they seem to be the only real threat to MS
> these days. That's why they are in the press a lot. Plus,
> they make some clever stuff worth reporting about.
 
Threat for what, web based advertising - YES. That has Google won.
Threat for OS - NO! That was a long long hard road to dethrone
Microsoft from market leadership. Google have the capacity for that
- YES. But is it teh right way to replace one monopolist with
another.

Greetings
Mario


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