Intel doesn’t view Chrome OS as a threat to Moblin, just wants world peace
Here’s an interesting one. While one would assume that Intel would be quaking in its boots with the emergence of Chrome OS, Michael Chen — director of Intel’s embedded sales group and ultra mobility group in Asia-Pacific — recently proclaimed that the company isn’t worried at all. In fact, Intel seems pretty stoked that Google has introduced an operating system that will undoubtedly rival its own Moblin. To quote: “Our long-term goal is providing hardware...
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Switched On: With Google, this is not your father’s OS war
Ross Rubin (@rossrubin) contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology. Google’s incursions into software — particularly in strategic markets for Microsoft, are like an Earth-bound asteroid. Observers see it coming for a long time, and fear its impact will be devastating when it finally arrives. So far, though, Google’s major software forays have been anything but cataclysmic, and Microsoft hasn’t even had to send Bruce Willis into space to stop them. On...
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