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Originally Posted by Philip
Great cartoon, Jeff! It looks like Google now is aiming for total world domination. Fortunately their interests are not in the OS market, otherwise Microsoft will have a very strong adversary breathing down their necks.
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Probably not. Any "new" operating system has to somehow overcome the challenges of software and hardware support. This is exactly why Linux is an utter failure in the consumer and enterprise desktop market. It takes more than smart engineers at one company to build something great. You need the support of developers all over the world, and--more importantly--something so innovative and powerful that it can sway users and corporations to switch. This simply won't happen, Apple has taken years to get where it is, and even OSX isn't really a viable option. Google isn't that great, they just have a monopoly on search technology, even though Live and Yahoo search is almost as good, they weren't first, and can't compete on the same level.