Google Elbowing in on Microsoft?
Rumors have been flying around tech and financial circles in recent months as Google and Microsoft have sparred for potential shares in the computer/media convergence market. From free Wi-Fi experimentation in SanFrancisco to attempts to purchase traditional media companies and plans to market wireless consumer devices for home media, Google has been putting pressure on Microsoft.
The latest? Google may attempt to drive a small—perhaps not do small—wedge in Microsoft’s traditional area of market strength: the operating system. In what may at first seem like simply a stronger move into computer and consumer hardware, Google is reportedly in talks with Wal-Mart to market a Google branded computer in the $300 range. But it’s not just hardware, of course. The inexpensive computer will save money in part by not using Windows, but likely a Google-customized Linux operating system.
Customizing such an OS should be a snap for Google, since Google alreqady uses over 15,000 linux-based computers in its search service.
See the eNews article for more hardware-oriented aspects of this story.
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