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[News] Extensive Review of 10 Web-based Operating Systems

Big WebOS roundup - 10 online operating systems reviewed

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| While we're waiting for Google to launch its own Google OS (if the
| rumours are true, of course), I've checked out 10 web operating
| systems and what they can do. Not many of them feel like finished
| and fully usable products, but there are some true gems among them.
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http://franticindustries.com/blog/2006/12/21/big-webos-roundup-10-online-operating-systems-reviewed/

These could give a boost to Linux, as one disruptive technology that embraces
another.


Related:

GoogleOS: What To Expect

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| We see 3 scenarios for a GoogleOS:
| 
|     * A web based desktop (i.e. operating system)
|     * A full featured Linux distribution
|     * A lightweight Linux distro and/or BIOS
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http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/googleos_what_to_expect.php


Google-Mart: Sam Walton Taught Google More About How to Dominate the Internet
Than Microsoft Ever Did

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| Google's strengths are searching, development of Open Source
| Internet services, and running clusters of tens of thousands of
| servers. Notice on this list there is nothing about operating systems.
| There are many rumors about Google doing an operating system to compete
| with Microsoft. I'm not saying they aren't doing that (I simply don't
| know), but I AM saying it would not be a good idea, because it doesn't
| play to any of the company's traditional strengths.
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http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/2005/pulpit_20051117_000873.html


Google 'looking to buy' Microsoft Office clone

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| Google is hoping to launch an office software suite that mimics
| Microsoft Office, according to the developer of the software.
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http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2170714/google-wants-office-suite


Will Berkowitz keep Windows Live?

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| At the risk of moving this article over to the opinion blog, many
| of the problems Berkowitz faces were caused not by too much focus
| on technical wizardry, but by a lack of clear direction, both fo
| MSN and for Windows Live.
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http://www.liveside.net/blogs/main/archive/2006/12/10/ny-times-will-berkowitz-keep-windows-live.aspx


Sources: Several Windows Live Projects Halted

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| Microsoft's Windows Live desktop search project has been
| shelved "indefinitely," although not much reasoning has been
| given as to the reason for its demise.
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http://www.betanews.com/article/Sources_Several_Windows_Live_Projects_Halted/1163715423


Ozzie: Vista, Office must adapt to Web era

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| Ozzie said that the transition to integrate online services into Microsoft 
| products has been a challenge but that changes within the company are 
| happening.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9588_22-6133895.html


Will Web 2.0 ultimately kill Windows?

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|  Allchin shared his thoughts on Windows Live (which, along with Windows and 
| developer tools also falls under his organization); competition with Google 
| and Apple; and why a client-based version of Windows won?t ever completely 
| disappear, regardless of how successful Web services become.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=66


MSN Still Going Nowhere Fast

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| It is worth noting that Microsoft still hasn't made any headway
| in the search-and-portal game and, in fact, is falling farther andf
| arther behind. As a result, it is not surprising that Steve Ballmer
| is now warning media companies that Google is the Evil Empire --
| because no other competitive tactic has worked.
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http://biz.yahoo.com/seekingalpha/061116/20767_id.html?.v=1


Can Google trump Microsoft?

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| Google's "frontal assault" to Microsoft Office is Google Apps
| Enterprise Edition and Google is indeed waging warfare against Microsoft.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/micro-markets/index.php?p=697


November 25 - Microsoft Dies

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| This is the day. The demise of Microsoft. The day of reckoning has
| come at last. Friday 23rd November 2006. Google had seen it's profits
| soar massively. Microsoft on the other hand have had an awful year.
| Low profits, internal scandals, a lowered reputation and a lowered
| customer satisfaction rate have left the company in tatters. 
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http://globa-tech.blogspot.com/2006/11/november-25-microsoft-dies.html


Desperate Acts (of Microsoft)

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| Microsoft is expected to spend $650 million next year to let the world
| know it has a shiny new search service and Web advertising network.
| That money is more than double the amount Microsoft will spend rolling
| out Vista, the new operating system that will contribute vastly more to
| its revenues.
| 
| Microsoft's two-year catch-up effort in search has yielded only
| middling results. This year it dropped from 11% to 9% of all searches.
| Google handled 61% of the 204 billion searches worldwide in the past1
| 2 months.
| 
| "We're late to the game. We admit it," confesses a full-page Microsoft
| ad in national papers, begging the world to try out its new Live
| search service. You almost want to hand Chief Executive Steven Ballmer
| a cup of cocoa.
|
| [...]
|
| Think of this fight as determining a few decabillion dollars of market 
| value circa 2010. The current figures are $147 billion for Google and $284 
| billion for Microsoft.
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http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2006/1127/044a_print.html


Google, Ask Gain Search Share; Yahoo, Microsoft Lose Ground

http://biz.yahoo.com/seekingalpha/061020/18896_id.html?.v=1


Google vs. Microsoft Market Cap Game

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| Interesting seeing how Google's market capitalization has chased
| Microsoft's since Google's IPO. We have seemingly plateaued at a
| little under 60% for a year now, but any takers on bets with
| respect to how long that holds?
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http://paul.kedrosky.com/archives/2006/11/21/google_vs_micro.html


As Microsoft looks ahead, will Vista be the end of an era?

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| Once installed in the post, Mr Ozzie wrote an internal company
| memo that mapped out the challenges that face Microsoft. The
| message was clear: get Google, get with the internet and wean
| Microsoft off Windows as we know it.
| 
| "Through Google's focus they?ve gained a tremendously strong
| position," he said. "[Microsoft] must respond quickly and decisively
| . . . It's clear that if we fail to do so, our business as we know
| it is at risk."
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http://business.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13129-2494732,00.html


Why Vista might be the last of its kind

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| Imagine this. One of the world's most powerful monopolies puts 10,000
| people to work for five years to create one new product. And nobody
| is really sure if anyone wants it. How's that for a gamble?
| 
| That's what we have with Windows Vista, the new computer-operating
| system from Microsoft that debuted last week for businesses and,
| next month, for consumers.
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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2003460386_btview04.html


Vista: Microsoft's Last 'Big Bang' Operating System?

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| Yet for all the design missteps, overly ambitious plans, and
| personnel changes that led to a five-year lag between versions
| of Windows, questions about the future of Microsoft's software
| are top of mind for customers and partners. Ballmer swears to
| never let as much time elapse between Windows versions; the
| question now is how the company can keep churning out
| innovative products on a compressed timetable.
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http://newz.byethost31.com/Microsoft_vista_last_big_bang_operating_system.htm


Is Vista the End of Windows as We Know It?

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| The five-year long march to developing Windows Vista exposed just how
| broken Microsoft's Windows-development process is. It took far too
| long, major features were dropped along the way, and it was wrapped up
| in more red tape than the IRS. That's why I think that Vista will be the
| last of the "big-bang" Windows releases.
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http://www.oreillynet.com/windows/blog/2006/11/is_vista_the_end_of_windows_as.html


Life After Vista: Can Microsoft Retool for Web?

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| In a similar tug of war in the late 1990s, one internal faction
| lobbied to use Microsoft's Internet browser software to radically
| retool Windows for the Internet. But that faction lost out to a
| more PC-centric view of the Windows mission -- an outcome that some
| Microsoft insiders say is one reason the company fell behind in the
| Internet services Google and others now lead.
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http://tinyurl.com/yjngqj


Windows Vista the last of its kind

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| Vista will be the last version of Windows that exists in its current,
| monolithic form, according to Gartner.
|
| Instead, the research firm predicts, Microsoft will be forced to
| migrate Windows to a modular architecture tied together through
| hardware-supported virtualisation. "The current, integrated architecture
| of Microsoft Windows is unsustainable - for enterprises and for
| Microsoft," wrote Gartner analysts Brian Gammage, Michael Silver and
| David Mitchell Smith.
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http://www.techworld.com/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=6718

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