Google to take on Microsoft on the Desktop - Launches Goobuntu / Google Chrome OS
July 8, 2009
Google Inc. is preparing to launch an operating system for personal computers, a direct assault on the turf of software giant Microsoft Corp., which has long dominated the desktop with Windows. Google for the past 3 years has been using Goobuntu internally for testing and for normal daily use. It will be an Android compatible OS that will run Google Apps as well as others, Linux based and Opensource as understood by the reports. It’s being called Google Chrome OS.
Google currently has a sizable number of employees that use an Ubuntu flavor OS called “Goobuntu”. In the traditional Google style, it will be handed out for free. This is in direct response to Bing, Microsoft’s OS. Evidently we were told that Google informed Microsoft that if they enter into search in any big way, Google will enter into the OS market with the same force. Clearly Google carried out with this threat.
Microsoft’s bread and butter is the desktop, without it they lose all sorts of revenue streams, such as Microsoft Office. In this case, Android will be shipped with Google Docs (and will be also able to run OpenOffice.org) This is a seismic shift on the desktop and a win for opensource apps.
This is a screenshot of a very early release (circa 2007) this is the last screenshot that is available at this time. It is also not known if they will keep that name as well, as what you are seeing below is a very early adaption, as Goobuntu has been used internally by Google for nearly 3 years and it’s unsure if this is the exact flavor they will issue on the desktop. But our understanding is that it will be completely Google Chrome centric.
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