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Why Google OS Already Exists

Corsin Camichel [PersonRank 10]

Monday, July 31, 2006
17 years ago2,574 views

Let's face it. Google pretty much owns the Internet landscape. Unless something truly unexpected happens within the web community, I see no real indicator that they'll lose their market share anytime soon. This also opens them up to other online opportunities should they decide to pursue them.

One such opportunity is believed to be the much famed idea of a Google OS. The rumors have been floating around back and forth for awhile now and many people believe that it's simply a matter of time. Well I'm here to tell you that this is never going to happen; at least not in a form that we might expect to see, that is.

Consider this. Google already offers e-mail, picture editing, blogging, a personal calendar and its own brand of instant messenger. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, the Google OS is already alive and well.

Source: http://www.cooltechzone.com/Departments/Columns/Why_Google_OS_Already_Exists_200607312397/

Philipp Lenssen [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

> Yes, ladies and gentlemen, the Google OS is already alive and well.

Yeah, and Jason Kottke and others talked about it it around 2 years ago ;)
http://www.kottke.org/04/04/google-operating-system

/pd [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

ACtually the web as the OS was discussed first in 2000 at a O'Riley Conference :)-

Roger Browne [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

The web as the OS? Back in the 1990's Sun Microsystems had as its slogan "The network is the computer".

Philipp Lenssen [PersonRank 10]

17 years ago #

... we're going further and further back in history ... :)

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