_I am Reptar Posted June 21, 2004 Share Posted June 21, 2004 ok so everyone against me (that's everyone)Who will take microsoft's place, what company? LINUX AND/OR APPLE!! :woot: :woot: :woot: :woot: :woot: :woot: :ninja: :woot: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Humanreflect Posted June 21, 2004 Share Posted June 21, 2004 google should does a messenger :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STV Posted June 21, 2004 Share Posted June 21, 2004 that just doesnt make any sense though. because MSN OS and WINDOWS OS would be both made by microsoft still. why would they make an OS to compete with themself? ;) lol surprisingly, microsoft has several OS's that compete with each other: - windows 95 - windows 98 (original or SE) - windows ME - windows 2000 Pro - Windows XP (Home, Pro, Media Center, Tablet PC) the MSN OS "concept" would be on different, but more than likely, its base would be windows. STV Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STV Posted June 21, 2004 Share Posted June 21, 2004 LINUX AND/OR APPLE!!?:woot::?:woot:t::woot:ot::woot:ot::woot:ot:? :w:ninja::ninja:woot:oot: LINUX is not a company, did you mean redhat, novel or some other linux company? anyway, i highly doubt it at this point in time or even in the distant future. despite reports of linux gaining ground, i think that microsoft will grow substantially in the next few years as tech spending increases. STV Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nollog Posted June 21, 2004 Share Posted June 21, 2004 (edited) Good point STV, off subject, why is your binary in 8 bit? it should be 7bit, if it's ASCII... 1001110 1101111 1101100 1101100 1101111 1100111 01001110 01101111 01101100 01101100 01101111 01100111 "Nollog" Edited June 21, 2004 by Nollog Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STV Posted June 21, 2004 Share Posted June 21, 2004 Good point STV, off subject, why is your binary in 8 bit? it should be 7bit, if it's ASCII... yeah i know, but i thought it looked more complete as a whole byte. just a personal prefernce, thats all. good eye BTW. STV Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STV Posted June 21, 2004 Share Posted June 21, 2004 google making an OS is just like rich old Billy giving a 1$ to everyone in the world :p he has given more that that to the entire world. through his company, by himself, and through his foundation. remember when he used to be worth almost $100 billion. he gave a lot of that away. STV Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JoDaddy Posted June 21, 2004 Share Posted June 21, 2004 OS and search is two very different things. OS is much more complicated. The guy who said one person could make an OS just isn't thinking right. By the time that one person got a cool feature implemented, it would become uninteresting, becuase everyone would have it. The amount of man hours it takes to create a viable OS is just too great. Search is a market that isn't going to get any smaller, and certainly will get bigger. I know a lot of people that routinely deal with 100+ GB of files; finding the right one can be a major task, and Google has a wide open opportunity to do this. I think this will keep them quite busy for a while. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nollog Posted June 21, 2004 Share Posted June 21, 2004 (edited) When I make my billions I'll buy Google? and make all their programmers make an OS, okay? :ninja:a: I wouldn't be able to make a good OS but I'd be able to make an OS:ninja:a: Edited June 21, 2004 by Nollog Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+virtorio MVC Posted June 21, 2004 MVC Share Posted June 21, 2004 I don't see why a internet search/organising company would possibly want to develop an operating system. And if they did it would most likely be another stale unix ripoff, just what the world doesn't need and has too many of already. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
.weir Posted June 21, 2004 Share Posted June 21, 2004 I honestly don't see google making an os, how do you make the jump from web search (and then some) to a major software player?? I do agree with the people who say they could viably make software for better searching in your operating system, but chances are, ms would have nothing to do with it, steve jobs . . . erm, maybe, but not likey, but i could easily see them make it an open source project This would actually be a good move on their part imo. I wouldn't call myself a guru by any means, but i'm far from a n00b, either way, the few times i've tried my hand a linux, it wasn't that i couldn't do it, it was just too much power for me, there was too much I could customize and that made me go back to the windows simplicity. If google was to develop a way to easily search and navigate the linux file system, it would make linux flavors much more accessible to the masses, and would defenitely help their growth. just my 2 cents :whistle: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ivand Posted June 21, 2004 Share Posted June 21, 2004 Meh. Theyre just trying to, well.... organize the internet. :laugh: Read my sig's quote, They want to take over the world :ninja: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tehJR Posted June 21, 2004 Share Posted June 21, 2004 an OS would be weird Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZiGGA Posted June 21, 2004 Share Posted June 21, 2004 It's just simply not necassery, so my vote says no the will not do it. There's already Windows and Mac Os plus Linux and etc etc. Why would google bother, think you're jumping the gun a little just because they stepped their game up into the Email world. Google is a greate service but an OS is just a bit too much, maybe a Messenger.. but never an OS, not today, not the next year or year after that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
59501_1437839550 Posted June 21, 2004 Share Posted June 21, 2004 they will use the linux kernel, gnome & kde, debian's APT (not rpm that doesnt work), ++++++++searching text in each file........... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fred Derf Veteran Posted June 21, 2004 Veteran Share Posted June 21, 2004 :unsure: somehow I don't see the jump from search, to e-mail, to a full blown os? http://blaise.us/emots/drunk.gif Would Google ever offer an OS based on the MS model? No way. But... Take a customized, locked down version of Linux with a full-featured web browser. The user connects to Google's servers and runs the desired application off of Google's server (via a browser) and stores the document in their GMAIL user folder. No critical updates, no upgrades, no viruses, no backups to worry about. Everything is handled at Google's end. Google technological advantage is in massive back end servers. Why not leverage that by offering Application Service Provider services? It would fit their business model. Users would either rent access by a monthly fee or advertisements would pop-up while they work (GMAIL style). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chad.C Posted June 21, 2004 Share Posted June 21, 2004 Google OS....Never... Why would they want to go there, no need.. Already they have the most used search engine ever and not only that, theres no show of it changing.. I say stick to what they know best.... I wouldn't want their reputation being tarnished by a crapped OS.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
[ timko ] Posted June 21, 2004 Share Posted June 21, 2004 Google's next move will be in selling 1Gb of lemonade at cut-throat prices (Y) :pirate: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deaf Spacker Posted June 21, 2004 Share Posted June 21, 2004 Hehe this has made me laugh, Google will never make a OS apart from the one that they use for their servers etc. Google is a SEARCH and EMAIL company, not a PROGRAMING company (as far as I can tell). The topic starter claims that Microsoft only have 10-15 years left, well I think they have a lot longer then that left in the business. Anyways thanks for the laugh! :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
p0welly Posted June 21, 2004 Share Posted June 21, 2004 Google os - Nah Web based os -yeah i can see that Think about it, as bandwith increases why have all this bloatware on your pc, i rember hearing about a bios with internet access (ok tecnically that would be the os) but i can see the senario where you turn on your pc, the bios goes online and grabs your desktop, you click on an app and thats grabbed from its own server. any computer would therefore become "your" pc, as you could simply log into your os. Granted bandwidth wouldnt allow this now, but in a few years, maybe we will be going back to dumb terminals :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bushrat Posted June 21, 2004 Share Posted June 21, 2004 They could start an OS, How can some of you say they aren't going to? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandon Posted June 21, 2004 Share Posted June 21, 2004 Theyre not going to make an OS, end of story nothing more to see here Thread Closed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forster Posted June 21, 2004 Share Posted June 21, 2004 Hey anybody noticed google movements lately? email service , tons of additional features keep building up, and the computer searching program annoucmentI think that it is very likely ... etc etc OS blah blah I think its very likely youve lost your nose somewhere up your butt lol I dont think its very feasible for google to do an OS, and certainly not much of a viable business venture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hum Posted June 21, 2004 Share Posted June 21, 2004 :rolleyes: I'll start worshiping Google when it starts making me money. hehe Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zetter Posted June 21, 2004 Share Posted June 21, 2004 What are all those OS Researchers doing at Google?Rob Pike has gone to Google. Yes, that Rob Pike -- the OS researcher, the member of the original Unix team from Bell Labs. This guy isn't just some labs hood ornament; he writes code, lots of it. Big chunks of whole new operating systems like Plan 9. Look at the depth of the research background of the Google employees in OS, networking, and distributed systems. Compiler Optimization. Thread migration. Distributed shared memory. http://blog.topix.net/archives/000016.html Google are doing somthing big, and I reckon it's not just new search tools anymore Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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