Google’s Android May Challenge Microsoft in Portable Computers

Posted by Scott_Ruecker on Feb 19, 2009 2:01 PM EDT
Bloomberg; By Brian Womack
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Google Inc.’s Android operating system, after making inroads into the mobile-phone market, may be running on portable computers within the next year, challenging the dominance of Microsoft Corp. Google, which owns the most popular Internet search engine, could use its brand name and community of developers to get the software onto low-cost notebooks, said Ray Valdes, an analyst at Gartner Inc. One chipmaker, Freescale Semiconductor Inc., is already working on designs for an Android computer.

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