Google to Reveal More Chrome OS Details Thursday Night

Yeah, if your first and second attempts to replace people's personal computers with dumb terminals fail, find some other power mad, billionaire control freaks to fund your third attempt. Been there. Many, many times now.

No, all we get here are cheap shots at Apple or Google. Or lame wanna-be posts correcting supposed stats about market share of anyone other than Microsoft. This blog jumped the shark the day it started.

I'll be interested in seeing what comes of it.

Wonder if they are doing this beacuse of the leak or the fact that Windows 7 launch day is nearing?

Why am I not surprised by this? Seems to me that the Redmond is going to be ratcheting up all efforts on this one, anyone want to guess on the effort expended on that? The interesting thing is that the Pax Romana of Microsoft is over. Even BeOS is making a rebirth as Haiku. Point being that there is are now clear alternatives to MS and Windows which by definition all those that tout choice on this site should be for. Seems to me that choice is supposed to be a good thing. Linux, Mac OS X, Haiku, Google OS... awesome. You want to use Windows please continue to do so, there are now more and more people who choose something else or will have more of an opportunity to do so. For me the analogy is very similar to Gandalf's speech about overthrowing Sauron, to a paraphrase: "That we should wish to cast (Microsoft) down and have no one in (Microsoft’s) place is not a thought that occurs to (Microsoft’s) mind. They see it (and many pro Windows supporters as well) in terms of who would take their place? The answer: I don't want to see anyone take their place.

"Windows Mobile ***-ups this week" What are you talking about? Are you referring to the Sidekick, the proprietary OS and hardware produced by Danger and was purchased by MS, and who they now say that nearly all of the data that they thought may have disappeared is now back? That has nothing to do with Windows Mobile, and Paul has covered the Sidekick debacle in depth. So what screwup are you referring to?

What's news?? The Chrome OS will integrate a Javascript support... Or The shell over the Linux Kernel will be cute? Or what? The ChromeOS will be the OS of the futur?? With a Linux kernel... lol noooo!!! Let me laugh lol Come ooooon... Be serious please... Google can do better than this...

@ de Sllentio that law is pretty much toothless. "stating that bloggers and online reviewers must disclose when they receive payment for a post or review" I doubt Paul receives money. He probably gets exclusive access and help when writing his books. It really depends on what that term "payment" means. Now that guy that wrote that BS Apple Tax crap that MS paid for, would have to disclose that he was paid to write it by MS. Its a good start. Basically any review that is paid for by the owner of the product being reviewed would be an automatic NON read for me. Now if they could make a requirement, so the article is tagged somehow, so something like NetNewsWire could be set to ignore it it would be great. If that were to take place, who knows I might not ever get another link for the Winsupersite in my NetNewsWire:)

"BrightrevCarl said: @Paul This blog would be better without comments. Just saying." No way, its the back and forth that makes this site interesting. Without that its just Paul's highly slanted ranting about how great Microsoft and Windows are and how bad everything else is....

I just received an email announcing there are 95 new updates have been synchronized with my WSUS server. 90 f'ng 5!!! This just means Windows will get even slower. On the other hand, our Google Apps Premier service transparently rolls out updates with no disruptions, mandatory reboots, annoying messages. Ahhh, so much more relaxing....

sjaak I suspect that there's still quite an opportunity to get a good size share of the desktop market if a company would actually build a new, modern OS. Even with that it's an uphill battle but it'd be possible. The problem is that nobody has built a new desktop OS in years. Apple, IBM, SUN and others have tried and failed horribly. The WIndows NT kernel is the most modern one out there and it's getting older now. (Of course, it's vastly more modern than the *nix architecture systems like Linux or Mac OS X) Now, what isn't likely is that users will give up their actual personal computer flexibility and privacy and replace all that with a terminal/server model. If ChromeOS is what it appears to be (a stripped down browser-only shell on top of a Linux distro) then it is yet another of those "give something simple to those stupid users" models that are the mark of centralized server companies' combination of both hubris and contempt for their users. I guess we'll see which way Google goes. I suspect the latter but, hey, I could be pleasantly surprised by some actual new technology. I'd figure about 999:1 odds that it'll be "yet another terminal"

I aprouved Mike on this one!

"As would any hosted Exchange provider, or any service that is hosted for that matter. That's the point, and that's why you pay for it." ....except for in the real world.

Microsoft practices discrimination! The more I think on the pricing structure of Win7 I can’t help concluding Micro$haft is shafting the unschooled. Think of it – if one drops out of school or never attended university thereby not having access to a dot edu domain --> pays full price for 7? Would not is imply both Waethorn and Mike are in fact bigots? GO GOOGLE.

"thereby not having access to a dot edu domain --> pays full price for 7?" Only current STUDENTS are eligible for the deal. Even if you are alumni and still have a school e-mail address, you are not eligible.

"Those hapless Sidekick customers were done in by what turned out to be the incompetence of Microsoft, not the cloud." It's an upgrade gone wrong. To think that it doesn't happen in cloud computing is being naive. Google had the same problem, and continues to. I'm just putting it there to prove to you that cloud computing isn't any more stable or reliable than any other form of computing. "What distinct advantages over your competition is provided by doing something in-house? That's whats shrewd management wants to know." #1 is control. On-premise means that you are in control of your own data and environment (for good or otherwise - but that's up to your own competence). What cloud computing provider gives you any say in upgrade windows or scheduled maintenance? I'd bet the options are non-existant. In your own environment, you get to make your own calls.

"In your own environment, you get to make your own calls." and all the possible and pain and cost of a migration. Example - Hosted Exchange is not cheap but provided your vendor is competent, the upgrade to Exchange 2010 should be free and painless to you. One day your mailbox is on a Exchange 2007 server, the next its migrated live to an Exchange 2010 server.

If you are large enough to have IT staff, proper facilities, proper backup (off site backup) for such things as an Exchange environment then you should host it on site. Simply for privacy. If you can afford that stuff because you are not large enough to make that investment, then Gmail Standard for your company is the way to go.

You guys have your heads in the sand. Windows Mobile is being dropped by phone makers, large problems in dev, no direction, and lagging behind the far superior iPhone. Windows Mobile is a mess.