The cloud.
The bad news is it will not be available for a year.
firefox and windows 7 cause crashes on my ‘puters.
That reminds me of the old joke that was going around when Windows 95 was looong delayed, and then some. OS/2 was available, and it was pretty good, but because of MS's advertising skill, most people were waiting for the new Windows to ship.
The joke goes like this:
Bill Gates and his wife are in divorce court. The wife tells the judge that they've been married for a long time, but have yet to have sex. The judge says "Never?" She responds, "No, all he does is stand at the foot of the bed and tell me how good it's going to be!"
The cloud.
Interesting.
>> reinventing a tired old wheel (OS)
The problem with THAT is APPLICATIONS. Depending on what apps the user needs to run, it’s a problem for Chrome ranging from zero to intractable.
ref: critical mass
Well that screws it up i had Ubuntu on a laptop and it never did work right even after all the upgrades ...... what junk !
A programming buddy of mine has been running Ubuntu on his system for more than a year and he loves it.
I will say this about it; everything loads very fast! In fact, it loads instantly.
My experience with Chrome (I have the latest beta) is that is is a poor browser, as compared with Firefox. No way to set multiple rows, or change tab size or color (i usually have about 80+ tbs open for research, 16 per row), or change much of any behavior, or save web page as .mht, or with the url, or save all the urls, all of which and far more can be done with FF and extensions (like TabMixPlus). Chrome extensions are few, but now there is a sessioon saver.
As for an OS in which no app is trusted, this means little customization.
So I'm to trust Google with my search history and my data.
LOL!!
I have been using Google Chrome browser for months, and love it. There is a learning curve, as the UI is quite different from IE, but once you get past that, you will rock. In speed tests, Safari for windows is the fastest, Chrome is a very very close second, Firefox is a very distant third, and IE is a pig coming in last.
I tried Safari for Windows extensively, but it isn’t quite as user friendly as Chrome browser, so settled on Chrome.
I also own the new droid with the Android OS (I also owned the first Android phone, the G1). The droid is a great phone on the best network, and it is stoopid quick and very user friendly.
I have my old useless PC sitting around in a closet.
Maybe i’ll slap this OS on it and use it as a garage computer next spring.
All it would be used for anyways is mostly internet and music playing.
Ahh the cloud. A new name for a 70s idea that we’ve moved past. Sounds great all the way up until some guy running from the cops takes out an important poll and kills your internet.
“woes of OS X”? I like linux (typing from Mint) but I sure have no security or networking “woes” with my macbook running Snow Leopard. Nor’ did I with Leopard.