Even more speculation on Google Chrome OS

Argh, there have been about a zillion articles and blog posting declaring the future of computing and a coming "OS War" between Microsoft and Google. Paaalease. Although I myself am writing yet another piece of content related to Google Chrome OS, I feel compelled to do so because the vast majority of everything I've seen so far is simply rubbish... and I don't often call things rubbish.



Google claims that what is out there now is too complicated. People don't want to run desktop applications on their netbooks nor use it like they would a traditional laptop or desktop. Consumers want less options and less choice and just want to run a web browser... and all of the services that can be shoehorned in via the web.



In reality Google doesn't seem to be doing anything new... just take Linux and beat it into the shape you want. Any major Linux distro maker could do the same thing in a few months.

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