| | Google (NasdaqGS: GOOG - News) is preparing to launch a desktop operating system, based on its Chrome browser, in its biggest direct assault on Microsoft's mainstay, according to NYT. The announcement will be made tomorrow, the story says.
Google has already been making inroads into MSFT's OS territory for some years now, with its Google Docs service, its year-long support of StarOffice OS, and more recently, Google-supported mobile OS Android, which has moved into Netbooks sphere (though not officially encouraged by Google). All of this hasn't yet made a big dent into MSFT's OS revenues; Microsoft (NasdaqGS: MSFT - News) is pretty capable tripping itself up, with Vista and now Windows 7. With Google Chrome OS, as it is supposed to be titled, its vision of everything delivered through the Web may come a little closer. It will also mean apps would run within Chrome when users are offline (it has already started doing that with some of its services like Gmail). Source: http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Googles-Biggest-Direct-paidcontent-1909219807.html?x=0&.v=1
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