Today’s desktop software will be overtaken by Internet-based services that enable users to choose the document formats, search tools and editing capability that best suit their needs." As web access via mobile phones grows, these standards will sweep aside the proprietary protocols promoted by individual companies striving for technical monopoly. "In 2007 we’ll witness the increasing dominance of open Internet standards. Via ReadWriteWeb, Google CEO, Eric Schmidt, wrote an article for the Economist: But I reckon they have been planning this for a good number of years at least. After playing with Android, Google's operating system designed for mobile devices, isn't bad for a first attempt. Google's plans to roll out a desktop operating system hasn't been a decision made lightly. Up until this point, this was Microsoft threatened by Google, not the other way around. Google saw this defensive move as quite interesting, partly hilarious. Google had no interest in targeting Microsoft - it was Microsoft who saw Google as the threat and pummeled everything it had into Live Search, now Bing. When Google came about nearly a decade ago, Microsoft's ears pricked up and the company assumed a defensive stance. Due to the recession, this effort was cut short and Apple still dominates the Zune. Since then, Bill Gates has banned Apple products in his house and Microsoft set up an "iPod amnesty", where employees with an iPod could bin it and replace it with a Zune, Microsoft's iPod equivalent. The iPod was a punch in the stomach to Microsoft, which never thought it would take off. Over time, Apple realised no matter what they did, it could never hold the monopoly over Windows so the moved onto better things. Full Chrome OS coverage can be found here.įor more years than I've been alive, there has been a bitter battle between Apple and Microsoft.
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