Ballmer on Google Chrome OS: “Who Knows What That Thing Is”
by John Paczkowski
Posted on July 14, 2009 at 11:05 AM PT
Microsoft (MSFT) might worry more about Google’s (GOOG) new Chrome OS if it knew what it was. At the company’s Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans today, CEO Steve Ballmer said he was mystified by the dual-OS strategy Google seems to have adopted with Chrome.
“Who knows what that thing is,” Ballmer said. “”I don’t know if they can’t make up their mind or what the problem is over there. The last time I checked you don’t need two client operating systems. We tried it before with Windows 95 and Windows NT and found it’s better to have one. So I don’t really know what’s up at Google,” he said, noting that a “netbook”-centric operating system probably won’t provide good offline integration. “There’s good data that says 50 percent of the time that someone’s on their PC, they’re not doing something with the Web browser,” Ballmer added.
Better to have one than two? I guess that explains Windows and Windows Mobile, huh?
Comments
Windows 7 on the Xbox? On cell phones?
Who would have known?
Well I guess if anyone would know that there is only one Windows it’s Ballmer.
After all he’s not just some clueless marketing type that his pal put in charge of the company or something.
Or something.
Posted by Mac Beach at July 14th, 2009 at 12:40 pmthe Web already has an OS, it’s made up of TCP/IP, HTML, XML, data.
I don’t need Google to try and own the Web any more than it does
I tried the Chrome browser when it first came out and it was a dud. Quickly uninstalled it
Posted by Sam Harrison at July 14th, 2009 at 2:03 pm