Google has announced plans to launch its own operating system next year. Google Chrome aims to be faster and more secure than its competitors. And like other Google software products, could this operating system be free?
When it comes to operating systems, the competition is crowded with 95 percent of the total market shared by Microsoft and Apple—and with Microsoft Windows holding 90 percent of the market.
So how will adding a Google operating system to the mix change the future of computers?
Our research shows the marketplace is excited about the possibilities of a Google operating system, but the media has a diversity of opinions on what exactly the future holds.
We start with
CNN, who likes the move, saying it’s good for consumers.
“It’s actually good. It’s good for us. Right, competition is good, tends to bring out more innovation, often times more choice, better cost.”Alternatively, the online tech publication,
The Register, doesn’t see Google making too much of a dent on the market because Microsoft is too secure.
“No one will be happier than Microsoft about Google's vanity venture to market computers with a Google-brand OS. It gives us the illusion of competition without seriously troubling either business…”CNET reinforces Microsoft’s dominance, but sees Google’s new operating system as groundbreaking, noting the influence Google has had on technology in the past.
“Google has a track record of upsetting the status quo, though, taking on strong incumbent players and rattling cages well beyond the computing industry.”CNBC says Microsoft and Google should focus on their core strengths—Microsoft with OS and Google with search.
“In the same way people kind of laughed off Microsoft’s search engine, Bing as being unable to do any meaningful damage to Google’s dominance, well the same likely can be said about Google’s attempts to unseat Microsoft’s dominance in OS, at least so far.”With Google’s market cap weighing in at 126 billion versus the 198 billion of Microsoft, do you think Google will make any kind of splash with their new operating system?
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