It's really sad, that there is no serious competitor for Windows and OSX on desktop ATM. Linux is still somewhere between X11 and Waylaynd/Mir with it's GUI toolkits support and lacks commercial offering. Android is just not desktop OS and ChromeOS is not a full desktop.
Microsoft's new CEO is much smarter than these.They are shifting their product to be IT company rather than a pure software company.
They will put endless money on bing. They did put Bing in the core of their best product -Windows 10-.
Google does know very well this Microsoft is going to hurt them really bad.
The recent news about Google working on Desktop OS is google's answer to Microsoft moves. Microsoft prepares itself to make greatest Desktop OS in the whole market in next 3 year.
And Google does know if Microsoft unifies all its user under windows 10 and windows do provide them best desktop experience, eventually they will find a way to take away user from Chrome(browser)/Android to their own platform.
The only move google can make in this position, is to work on windows replacement. (and as news came out, they are doing).
and they choose android rather than Chrome os to be their desktop os. Let's not kid ourselves, chrome os will not be mainstream os maybe until 30 years . (the networking technology is not there yet, it doesn't have anything to do how great/secure is Chrome OS).At the other hand they had android.which is fragmented, which is not that great. but they have a huge userbase.
And they are working on a desktop version of android.
What networking technology does Chrome OS need? It's entirely possible to write great offline apps for it, they are just built using web technologies so you can use the same code online and offline.
Apps are useless if they can't reach their data, because it didn't fit in (tiny) local storage anymore and external storage is unavailable due to lack of (reliable, fast) network connectivity. Although manufacturers could simply offer devices with local storage and solve that.
Well, they probably wont switch and I didn't say that this will happen. I also don't care if company X or Z wins or loses.
My point is that the parent just declares what he hopes will happen as if it was a fact without giving any kind of evidence supporting it. And that is exactly what he/she did.
