Google Operating System to Compete With Windows 7

Chrome OS takes fight to Windows 7 on netbooks

Since you’re here, I can assume at least one of these things:

1. You are intrigued by the Google Operating System.
2. You need a payday loan (or payday loans) to help with a short-term budget snafu.
3. You look to Personal Money Store for news and views on finance, politics, entertainment and the generally bizarre.
4. You wish to be a member of Tarlow’s Army, a club I’m starting… right… now.

More on the Army thing later. What I want to know is this: If you are a faithful Windows OS user, whether it be XP or Vista, will you automatically stick with Windows 7 after it is officially released later this year, or will you consider switching to the newly announced Google OS (aka the Chrome OS). People are making a lot of noise about Google’s latest plan to control your computing experience, and I’m curious as to whether the trip will be one I’ll want to undertake.

Open source pricing

Saul Hansell blogs for the New York Times that by the second half of 2010, netbooks on the shelves of your favorite computer store will be sporting the new Google operating system, called the Chrome OS. This will be entirely separate from the Android OS found in T-Mobile and other cell phones (and coincidentally on some netbooks). The new OS will be based upon Ubuntu Linux. And like that open source OS, the Google OS for PC will also be free. ... click here to read the rest of the article titled "Google Operating System to Compete With Windows 7"