Comments on: Chrome OS Not Exactly a "Death Knell" for Windows

By: Mac Beach

Mac Beach — Sat, 11 Jul 2009 04:05:14 +0000

Patrick: It’s true that Google’s support for millions of anonymous and non-paying Gmail users is less than spectacular. But then that is true of Hotmail, AOL, Facebook, all the ofther free Internet services, and even most of the PAID Internet services.

Heck, when last I worked for a company that used Exchange I couldn’t get a straight answer out of the support people there either.

When e-mail is down, all you need is a status page that tells you when it will be back up again.

Other than that, Gmail has probably been more reliable than any other e-mail system I’ve used, public, private, free, or paid.

Yesterday’s coverage of the “new” OS was overhyped. Today, reality sets in. Besides, it’s not even released yet. I’m not sure it even counts as a “shot across the bow” yet. More like an old British cargo ship noticing an island with a disproportionate number of people wearing eye-patches at this point.

Arrrr.

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A Million Thoughts NL » Google Chrome OS — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:48:11 +0000

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By: patrick mullins

patrick mullins — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 14:42:02 +0000

I think any new OS also has to be optimized and work closely with gaming companies. Linux flounders with gamers since most apps tend to run slower or not at all.

Also… has anyone ever had a problem with gmail? Google support is terrible. They will need to hire people for support rather than build an AI that sends autoreplies filled with jibberish. I hope Google can pull this off, but would hate to have a shiny new OS with no support.

By: Sam Harrison

Sam Harrison — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 20:15:22 +0000

i no more want google as my os than i do mcdonalds…

i’m tired of google owning the web…why do i want them to own my desktop also?

besides, google’s chrome is a mess, i tried it and quickly uninstalled it

remember how google docs was supposed to dethrone microsoft office?

never happened.

look at the other google failures:

orkut (myspace and facebook trounced it)

google video (they had to buy youtube instead)

google checkout (paypal is the leader by longshot)

etc.

do some homework before writing these hype pieces

show how many successes google has had in each of its efforts

By: Alan Sanders

Alan Sanders — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:03:45 +0000

I love these jokers who wax poetic about Google’s threat to Microsoft with nary a mention of Apple or OS X. It takes a long time to turn a big ship around, but Apple has been intent on doing just that for quite some time. The notion that Google will just waltz in and take significant market share from Microsoft is naive at best.

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