Google vs MS

At the heart of it is a battle of generations,between business ideologies and technologies. General complaints associated with Windows are slowness,having to carry data around,needing to frequently re-boot not surprising given that Windows was conceived in another era,as a pre-web operating system,and since its market domination

didnt offer much comparison. Google however is viewed as a contemporary,eager to experiment and risk being wrong. A natural extension of the Google Chrome web browser,Chrome OS will run on an open-source licence; and its call-to-arms are: Speed,simplicity and security. Its billed to be fast and lightweight,to start up and get you on to the web in a few seconds. In short,it should be the first genuinely post-web operating system.

Nevertheless,an operating system and a web browser arent the same in terms of function,complexity and detail. Googles Achilles heel is security and privacy the flipside of its worldview that software and personal data should reside on

the Internet instead of ones PC. Consumers will welcome Googles challenge to Microsofts USP; such competition benefits them and the market. But before the offensive,Google needs to protect its back.