Google OS considered harmful

Google have [announced that they are releasing an operating system][0]. What I want to know is: why? [0]: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/introducing-google-chrome-os.html Well, obviously, because they can, because...

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Thoughts on Google Chrome

Google are due to release a new browser, called Chrome, tomorrow <http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/fresh-take-on-browser.html>_. So, here are my initial (i.e., pre-release) thoughts on it, based solely on...

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GoogleTalk isn't Jabber

So, everybody's been singing the praises of Google for using an open standard, XMPP (also known as Jabber), for its Google Talk service. Open standards...

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Driving Directions

Google's driving directions from New York to Dublin aren't quite as bad as MSN Maps' cockup of a few years back, but they do include...

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GMail cockup

Well, somehow GMail mistook my attempt to import some of my old emails into it for an attempt to forward them all to the original...

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google toolbar supports linux?

From http://www.google.com/tools/firefox/toolbar/: > System requirements: > Windows XP/2000 SP3+, Mac OS X 10.2+, or Red Hat Linux 8.0+ So the only versions of GNU/Linux that...

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