Yeah... no. I am already drinking too much Google Kool-Aid™. I just can't bear having Google know all of my intimate secrets. I just imagine Google suggest being like clippy: It looks like you are writing a resignation letter. Would you like Google to find you a new job? It looks like you are about to cheat on your girlfriend, would you like Chrome to tell your wife you are at the mall, and order a shirt off of Google Checkout? I don't know, it just seems like at some point Google is going to pull back the white curtain and reveal it's less honorable intentions.
It probably won't be worth replacing your OS for, but it will be great on netbooks and small devices to run a Google version of Linux
Will it be free? I mean Chrome OS.
It's browser, not OS, in this link, You gave.
Looks good, I might try it when it comes out, although I doubt It'll replace windows just because windows can run so many more games.
I am interested for an alternative OS, but is it out yet?
I have hear rumours that some have already downloaded and installed the Chrome OS.
Is these jokes, or misunderstanding a browser as OS, or it is hidden somewhere I did not managed to hyperlink to yet?
Hope to get some answers.
Based on Google tradition - it should be free.
Google's map, Google's Picasa3, others are all free.
The business model is unlike Microsoft, and Microsoft is beginning to realise that the business model of Google is better than theirs - see the fierce battle for the Internet search engine which Microsoft is trying.
In years to come, the real marketplace will be the virtual domain of the Internet, and the services on the Internet will be the tools for branding (e.g. Google is now a word in the UK dictionary, a name people associate with the Internet), advertising, etc.
I do hope Microsoft have the courage to take this path, and we may really see more free stuff from them. MS has a fair bits of freeware (of course with ulterior motives).
Their MS SQL server (freeware version), Virtual PC (emulation of other OS), their dis-continued WinNT, Visual Studio.NET (free edition).
So to give them the credit - they too have force the competitors like Oracle, Sun, to give freeware too.
Yap, it seem the business model of the real world is changing thanks to the business model of the virtual world. But do care for the reality of the Spiritual world, which can be more real than any of these worlds we are seeing.
With best regards.
