__/ [ Mark Kent ] on Sunday 11 March 2007 20:33 \__
> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> __/ [ Mark Kent ] on Friday 09 March 2007 16:34 \__
>>
>>> John Locke <johnlocke98513@xxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>> On Fri, 09 Mar 2007 12:47:03 +0000, Roy Schestowitz
>>>><newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Desktop Predictions for 2007-2008
>>>>>
>>>>>,----[ Quote ]
>>>>>| 1. Apple will license Mac OS X to OEMs this year (2007) while Vista
>>>>>| sales are still sluggish.
>>>>>|
>>>>>| 2. Mac OS X sales will surge wildly and end up accounting for up to
>>>>>| 25% of all new PC shipments by the end of 2007.
>>>>>|
>>>>>| 3. Emboldened by Apple's success, Sun will push GNU/OpenSolaris
>>>>>| to corporations in 2008. The system will probably be called "The
>>>>>| Liberty Desktop".
>>>>>|
>>>>>| 4. Linux will be seen as "ready for the desktop" once desktop
>>>>>| diversity becomes the norm. Linux will dominate the low-cost
>>>>>| desktop segment thereafter.
>>>>>`----
>>>>>
>>>> I think that the Google Goobuntu project might be very significant.
>>>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/01/31/google_goes_desktop_linux/
>>>>
>>>> These guys have the resources to make a huge impact in the Linux
>>>> world.
>>>>
>>>
>>> The article is good, but I wouldn't say that there's anything hard to
>>> use in Ubuntu now, let alone needing further development. Maybe the
>>> register reporter just wants it to look exactly like Windows.
>>
>> DiBona explicitly said that they would not make Goobuntu public. Then
>> again, over a year ago at a conference, Brin stubbornly dismissed rumours
>> that Google were working on an Office Suite. Fast forward 2 years...
>>
>
> In the world of media, spin, circumlocution and so on, a denial is
> worth, well, several column inches of speculation, anyway!
I wonder if they hid their intentions or simply had a change of mind. At the
time (when I blogged it), Google cooperated with OpenOffice quite closely
and even sent its engineers over.
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