I am totally nuts when it comes to operating systems. I have laid my hands on Windows xp and vista (I will shortly write about setting up vista on Lenovo N series laptops). I have tried a myriad of Linux distributions like SuSe, Mandriva, Fedora and Ubuntu. But I so desperately waiting for a Google OS.
There’s no such thing as the GoogleOS in reality – but despite that, it is one of the most talked about Web products. People can’t stop discussing it – and even imagining screenshots for it! Seems like everyone expects Google to get into direct competition with Microsoft, by releasing an operating system. However Google refuses such claims and even makes fun of this kind of buzz. Nevertheless we decided to analyze where Google may be heading with their product strategy – and from that determine what are the chances of a GoogleOS.
Possibilities
We see 3 scenarios for a GoogleOS:
A web based desktop (i.e. operating system)
A full featured Linux distribution
A lightweight Linux distro and/or BIOS
We’ll try to explain each of these in detail – then in the conclusion, make our prediction. What’s more, we think this could be less than 6 months away from happening.
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Conclusion: GoogleOS will tackle Microsoft’s Vista OS head on
We believe that everything will become much clearer in the following 6 months. Microsoft will put pressure on Google with its Vista OS, which will receive relatively high adoption just like any other new Windows release (although probably not as high as historically Microsoft has enjoyed!). As Vista’s adoption increases, so will the adoption of its default search engine Live Search. From Microsoft’s perspective, this will have a positive effect on all Live and MSN sites. What end users are looking for is ease-of-use and satisfactory experiences – which in a lot of cases starts from the Vista OS.
In that scenario, Google’s usage rates may be negatively affected. So we predict at that point, Google will start a more punchy strategy – pushing Firefox and some form of Google OS. Yahoo! has already responded to the Microsoft threat in a friendly fashion, by offering a customized IE7 for its users. But we think Google will be more aggressive and competitive and will push their own OS. The GoogleOS may be a reality within 6 months!
Rumours are that google would soon integrate its Google Talk instant messaging and VOIP service into Orkut. Apparently, google talk and Orkut development teams are busy putting the finishing touches on the integration. The announcement will likely be made sometime next week.
This would mean orkut members will be able to text message and voice chat with other members of the community if they choose to communicate in that way and not scrap each other. In other words, this means that orkuters would no longer have to keep asking each other in scraps for IM ids to make their conversations private and one to one.
Another tactic my google to promote its conked Gmail service . Gmail these days has become highly unreliable. I missed few important mails and not just that but also the sender wasn’t even notified about the undelivered messages! At least yahoo informed me regarding it. Gmail is much slower as compared to yahoo mail beta and most of the time I get the default message that gmail cannot be loaded because of slow connection. And there are no in-build smileys on Gtalk. The editor needs a revamp and include a lot of things like superscript,subscript and various other symbols. When Gmail first came in the interface was highly appreciable but the present yahoo mail beta’s interface is far better with drag & drop feature and flexibility of window size and it also includes RSS feeds. Perhaps the only thing that can now google boast off is the search engine. I must confess that Yahoo and MSN search are weird! (especially MSN) I never use them.
Just search for orkut on MSN (click here) and the first result you get is his profile! There is no orkut.com in the first page and perhaps many pages to come.
But I wonder how will this move affect members. I don’t want to add all those 300+ people in my friends list to gtalk! I am someone who logins to orkut only when someone scraps me. I generally aviod as they call orkutting. And then if i login someone or the other scraps me, “if you are online then why don’t you tell me”. The first thing I do is logout. I am not as social as orkut expects me to be
Garima Dhiman further goes on to say (and I love this line )
Social networks are almost like living legends now, only if some of them could sustain around 10 more years, i would actually be able to tell my kids something like – “oh! OrkuT – son i actually met your father there”.(PS: this is just an example, infact maybe of the worst case scenario )
I have known few who have actually met on orkut and perhaps will end up together. Orkut is still young and time will only tell how many such online contact will lead to long term relationships.
So my dear old mobile celebrates his anniversary today perhaps the only mobile to do so in 5 years! I had Nokia 3510, then 2 shady Reliance handsets, one samsung v200, Nokia 6600 and the present one Sony Ericsson k750i. This SE has an awesome camera. But there are drawbacks of this handsets. I am not exactly impressed with it because I had problems with it. The joy stick stopped functioning within 5 months of purchase. I got it repaired and now the camera button is malfunctioning. And plus SE service is pathetic. I had to take this phone all the way to Nungampakkam service station because the local sellers refused to take it. Nokia service was awesome. You can easily drop to any of their shops and get it repaired, even thought you have lost the original bill. I had to submit a lot of documents for SE. But the camera is without doubt the best available in market. The new version of SE K900i has a 3.2 megapixel camera. But the video capture resolution still remains at 170×90 Nokia scores over SE in this field….all the latest models of Nokia have decent video cameras with N93 having a mind boggling DVD quality video capture resolution. Here is a brief comparison
1. Nokia is robust but costly and heavy. SE camera is much better than Nokia. Video capture is better in Nokia.
2. Nokia’s service is very prompt and easily accessible. SE has a lot to do in this regard
3. Symbian operating system in Nokia is ideal for tech enthusiast but the Java based SE are not far behind.
4. SE offers free upgrade of operating system through online updates. Its clean and not complex but I had troubles configuring the software initially. There was flash player problems. Remember SE uses the IE flash player and not the firefox ones so if you get the error message like flash player not compatible then update your Internet explorer flash player. SE and IE have a partnership huh?
BTW the person in the picture above is certainly not me and most conspicuously the girl is also not my gf
Here are few videos of my favorite N93…I seriously recommend this phone and blackjack online
I have been using Firefox for over an year now but now planning to shift to Flock. Well the reasons, here they are:
1. RAM usage. Occasionally the RAM usage shoots up to more than 200 MB and then my whole system collapses. I have heard that they plan to improve this in the new version 2.0 so lets wait and see but I am not very hopeful
2. Extensions. Whenever I upgrade my Firefox version I have compatibility problems. Many of my extensions don’t work, in spite of using Nightly Tester Tool. So I have to change the settings again and again.
3. GMAIL. I am a frequent Gmail user. All my mails come there and I have to be online most of the time to check my mail. But most of time Firefox gives up showing this error message.
In fact IE7 or Flock never give me this problem. No doubt the Gmail manager extension is helpful but still what’s the point if Gmail doesn’t open.
4. Of late I have been observing few problems which have no explanation. I try loading my blog in the both the browser. Both took the same time but Flock quickly loaded the Ajax based page scroller.
But Firefox couldn’t load
Sometimes my blog doesn’t even load! And I took that as some problem with my hosting server or a plugin problem. DamnI uninstalled all the plugins. I later realised that it has to do with my browser.
No doubt Firefox is a great companion, especially with enhanced security and RSS feeds,but I think its time Firefox looks into these problems. A browser which has to be one stop at internet. RSS reader, Email, Blog, News ticker, Social networking interface (Orkut etc.) so that i don’t need to login to every site to check whats latest.
I wrote about yahoo mail beta yesterday. Well my yahoo account is still to get the mails. Its more than 24 hours and the transfer engine is still to put a mail in the folders it created yesterday. Anyways yahoo mail doesn’t have the flexibility of gmail.
1. There is no chat feature. In gmail you can reply via chat
2. You can share calender and excel sheets online
3. Extra storage
4. All google services could be clubbed together
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perhaps the only mobile to do so in 5 years! I had Nokia 3510, then 2 shady Reliance handsets, one samsung v200, Nokia 6600 and the present one 
Nokia scores over SE in this field….all the latest models of Nokia have decent video cameras with N93 having a mind boggling DVD quality video capture resolution. Here is a brief comparison
