http://www.tomshardware.com/news/google-windows-torture-chrome-os,12737.html
Google yesterday unleashed the full details on the public launch of the Chrome OS notebooks – or what the company now calls Chromebooks.
It's the big push by Google to run the desktop and laptop world with the idea to take away market share from Microsoft by relieving users and support staff of "torture" from Windows.
"With Microsoft, and other operating system vendors, I think the complexity of managing your computer is really torturing users," Google co-founder Sergey Brin said, quoted by Network World. "It's torturing everyone in this room. It's a flawed model fundamentally. Chromebooks are a new model that doesn't put the burden of managing the computer on yourself."
The key to Chrome OS is in its simplicity to the user. The data storage, applications, and even system updates are all done by Google in the cloud. In theory, this should free IT from having to deal with lost data, backups and outdated software.
Google claims that 75 percent of business users can be converted from Windows to Chrome OS right away.
In fact, inside Google, Brin estimated that only about 20 percent of its employees still use Windows. The rest of the staff either run Mac OS X or a flavor of Linux.
As far as Windows goes, however, Brin doesn't have any issue with the latest version – just that it doesn't operate like Chrome OS.
"I don't think there is anything inherently wrong with Windows," Brin said. "Windows 7 has some great security features."
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There you have it folks. You are being tortured by Windows. Hand over your personal data to Google's cloud and everything will be ok...
I do love how OSX and Linux aren't torturing anyone and are ok to use in their office, despite having the same local data/program management as windows.
Someone please explain to me how is Microsoft still the "evil" one? I can see myself being literally afraid to touch a Google product in a few years if this business model takes off.
Even today, if you type "1080p projector" in google search...you will be seeing tiger direct projector ads anywhere you go for weeks. Imagine the behavioral targeting they will be able to do once they have your personal data...
