Google:

the company that plays footsies with China’s ‘Freedoms Squads’

& Americans are dumb enough to think that it doesn’t happen in North
America.

riiiiight:  it’s all in service of the “American Dream”, is that it?

“World domination” indeed!

perspective, people.

Perspective.

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When I eat Taco Express and type a 300 word manifesto to Politico I pass gas when I hit send. Cloud Computing???

By Marshall K, July 8 at 1:44 pm #

<<Just try opening a document written with Vista with an old version of XP.>>

I assume you’re talking about documents saved with something like MS Word.  You could certainly save the document in legacy Word format and open it under XP (or Mac OS X for that matter).

<<Just like GM, it worked for them for a long time, but people are getting sick and tired of their crappy operating systems, and are starting to look for something better.>>

My perception is that people don’t care that much about the OS, and most are more or less happy with XP because they know how to use it.  That’s why Google is hoping the netbook will be the trojan horse for their new OS; because it would be pretty difficult to supplant the OS on a standard desktop PC.  And those that really hate MX probably already own Macs.

Cardboard_Man’s points about cloud computing are important. I just wonder how many on this site understand exactly what he is talking about. The good news is that open source development is far greater than even a billion dollar concern such as Google, who have embraced non-windows formats like Linux, in their never ending quest for my eyeballs. But community based operating systems, such as Ubuntu, believe that the Internet should be free and open to everyone, without surrendering millions of dollars in licensing fees to Gates, Balmer, Jobs, and their ilk.

Once upon a time, those who advocated for Linux solutions and open source software, soon discovered that those who surrendered mammon to the Gates altar were legion, and were quite happy to continue to pay tithes to the mighty Windows, because doing something different would require actual personal effort, which in the consumerist mindset of the United States, is considered an anathema, if not downright degrading.
Despite all the bitching about Microsoft, many folks must truly love that corporation. Why else would they continue to use their Explorer browser, when it is clearly the most compromised in the entire world? I guess they just do not have the initiative to install the Firefox for windows?
Perhaps this old saying applies here: Slaves Embrace Your Chains.

hello. i applaud Google for projecting forward into a quickly developing market that needs tiny, portable, personal equipment solely for browsing the web. i would clap louder if they enabled their systems to interplay with Microsoft, on applications that work better on larger, perhaps home based, systems. people in motion could surf unlimmetted venues in what now is considered down time, and then incorporate their research into their home systems. or not.

Microsoft has followed the same business model as General Motors: Planned obsolescence.  Its new systems, like Vista are not compatible with their old systems.  Just try opening a document written with Vista with an old version of XP.
Just like GM, it worked for them for a long time, but people are getting sick and tired of their crappy operating systems, and are starting to look for something better.  I hope that Google comes up with a system that is more like a Honda or Toyota.

Operating System? I have only one word to say: UBUNTU.
http://www.ubuntu.com/

AskWoody http://www.askwoody.com has an article about it.
It’s a helpful website.

My only problem is Google Chrome browser, altho I really do like, keeps crashing/freezing on me, but then that could be using damn Windows, but I look forward to seeing what it can do