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For any of you who have been around long enough to remember me always claiming a google OS would arrive.....

I WAS RIGHT   

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31791017/ns/technology_and_science-the_new_york_times/

Looks like a bunch of speculation by MSNBC to me.  It's not news until Google makes a statement.

MSNBC actually pulled it from the NYT

Before they updated their news article, I didn't see anything like that.  It was just speculative.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/introducing-google-chrome-os.html

I wonder if it still has Chromes EULA which states something along the lines of any information that is passed through Chrome belongs to google.

Google is slowly trying to get its hand in every piece of Microsoft's pie.  Personally, I don't really care whether they succeed or not...I only care that Microsoft gets some real competition.

I think they're all trying to get into each other's pies.  Google now has some competition with BING (Bing Is Not Google, anyone?), which is pretty nice, by the way.  Microsoft has some competition from Apple OS X and iWork.  Apple has some competition from RIM's Blackberries, Palm's Pre and Google's Android OS.

Either way, I think Microsoft started getting some real competition again when Apple released first a line of Intel Macs and then the iPhone.  For every iPhone developer creating apps for Apple's app store, they are using at least one Mac.

True, but Apple doesn't have anything whatsoever competing with Microsoft in the low end budget pc, or general business use demographics.  Right now, as far as netbooks and cheap desktops go, Ubuntu is Microsoft's biggest competitor, and lets be honest...most people don't even know that it exists. 

I don't think Apple really cares right now.  It's not like you need to compete in every space just for the sake of competing.  Though, I personally would like them to enter that area.

That was kind of my point.  Right now, Apple doesn't really have the option of competing in the budget categories.  If they tried, they would likely lose their high quality image.  It would be like BMW trying to come up with something to compete with a Kia Sephia. 

Google is the only software company with the resources to possibly compete in the low end categories.  Although it would be cool if they somehow did take a significant market share, I'll settle for Microsoft being forced to cater to the needs of the consumer a little more than they have in the past.  For example, I really don't think that Microsoft's announcement that they're going to offer a free antivirus program in the future and Google's OS announcement are entirely unrelated. 

I agree with this guy: http://bit.ly/msmoment