Comments on: Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference: Will Google Chrome OS Steal the Show? http://www.thevarguy.com/2009/07/09/microsoft-worldwide-partner-conference-will-google-chrome-os-steal-the-show/ What's Next In the IT Channel Sat, 20 Mar 2010 18:37:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: The VAR Guy http://www.thevarguy.com/2009/07/09/microsoft-worldwide-partner-conference-will-google-chrome-os-steal-the-show/comment-page-1/#comment-107524 The VAR Guy Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:34:23 +0000 http://www.thevarguy.com/?p=3827#comment-107524 Darwin: It's been almost a year since The VAR Guy wrote the blog entry above. But our resident blogger appreciates you re-starting the conversation on this thread. Microsoft does hire "smart people"... all the time. But those smart people must balance new innovations with Microsoft's legacy business. That's a tricky balancing act. -TVG Darwin: It’s been almost a year since The VAR Guy wrote the blog entry above. But our resident blogger appreciates you re-starting the conversation on this thread.

Microsoft does hire “smart people”… all the time. But those smart people must balance new innovations with Microsoft’s legacy business. That’s a tricky balancing act.
-TVG

]]> By: Darwin http://www.thevarguy.com/2009/07/09/microsoft-worldwide-partner-conference-will-google-chrome-os-steal-the-show/comment-page-1/#comment-107523 Darwin Thu, 11 Mar 2010 17:10:44 +0000 http://www.thevarguy.com/?p=3827#comment-107523 Think of long term, cloud it coming. It will develop over the time but it is more evolved idea as compared to traditional desktop based systems. Microsoft expanded so much just because of no competition. Now its different. Also Microsoft is going to try to make market by putting their products online. If Microsoft wants to survive they need to revive their business model and also trying hiring "some smart peolple from industry" and then do what suggest not puppet employees. Think of long term, cloud it coming. It will develop over the time but it is more evolved idea as compared to traditional desktop based systems. Microsoft expanded so much just because of no competition. Now its different. Also Microsoft is going to try to make market by putting their products online. If Microsoft wants to survive they need to revive their business model and also trying hiring “some smart peolple from industry” and then do what suggest not puppet employees.

]]> By: Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference: Will Google Chrome OS Steal the Show? @ OS-ING http://www.thevarguy.com/2009/07/09/microsoft-worldwide-partner-conference-will-google-chrome-os-steal-the-show/comment-page-1/#comment-103943 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference: Will Google Chrome OS Steal the Show? @ OS-ING Fri, 10 Jul 2009 19:35:30 +0000 http://www.thevarguy.com/?p=3827#comment-103943 [...] Imagine the following scenario: You’re Microsoft — the world’s largest, most profitable software company. Several thousand of your partners are about to meet you in New Orleans for a massive conference. Everyone is wondering if you can (A) retain your established software franchises while (B) pushing deeper into cloud and software as a service (SaaS). Then, an unexpected hurricane blows into town. It’s called Google Chrome OS. Now what? [...] [...] Imagine the following scenario: You’re Microsoft — the world’s largest, most profitable software company. Several thousand of your partners are about to meet you in New Orleans for a massive conference. Everyone is wondering if you can (A) retain your established software franchises while (B) pushing deeper into cloud and software as a service (SaaS). Then, an unexpected hurricane blows into town. It’s called Google Chrome OS. Now what? [...]

]]> By: Joe http://www.thevarguy.com/2009/07/09/microsoft-worldwide-partner-conference-will-google-chrome-os-steal-the-show/comment-page-1/#comment-103910 Joe Fri, 10 Jul 2009 05:33:11 +0000 http://www.thevarguy.com/?p=3827#comment-103910 Thanks for the informative article. No BS or wild speculation. Enough info and links to make it very interesting. Here is some speculation... it doesn't seem to me that Windows 7 offers a lot more than what XP offers in terms of netbook functionality. But then there may be no need. Hopefully, Chrome will offer significantly more than Linpus, Xandros, and Suse (Ubuntu remix works pretty well on my particular netbook but there are enough reports of problems on other models). If Chrome actually works... I mean really and truly works with minimal effort... and non-Google Linux doesn't improve significantly, it's easy for me to see Google grabbing most of Linux-on-netbook systems. Desktop Linux is now so good that nothing else makes sense, for many of us, on desktop boxes, but the story is different on netbooks. Thanks for the informative article. No BS or wild speculation. Enough info and links to make it very interesting.

Here is some speculation… it doesn’t seem to me that Windows 7 offers a lot more than what XP offers in terms of netbook functionality. But then there may be no need.

Hopefully, Chrome will offer significantly more than Linpus, Xandros, and Suse (Ubuntu remix works pretty well on my particular netbook but there are enough reports of problems on other models).

If Chrome actually works… I mean really and truly works with minimal effort… and non-Google Linux doesn’t improve significantly, it’s easy for me to see Google grabbing most of Linux-on-netbook systems. Desktop Linux is now so good that nothing else makes sense, for many of us, on desktop boxes, but the story is different on netbooks.

]]> By: The VAR Guy http://www.thevarguy.com/2009/07/09/microsoft-worldwide-partner-conference-will-google-chrome-os-steal-the-show/comment-page-1/#comment-103857 The VAR Guy Thu, 09 Jul 2009 16:36:15 +0000 http://www.thevarguy.com/?p=3827#comment-103857 Update: Here's a healthy dose of <a href="http://blogs.zdnet.com/microsoft/?p=3268&tag=nl.e539" rel="nofollow">Google Chrome Skepticism</a> from All About Microsoft blogger Mary Jo Foley. Update: Here’s a healthy dose of Google Chrome Skepticism from All About Microsoft blogger Mary Jo Foley.

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