Chrome OS: Google's software stack revealed

Larry Dignan: Google plans to launch a lightweight operating system dubbed the Chrome OS that will target netbooks and Web apps. A direct assault on Windows? Google's entry into the software stack game has big implications for Linux, the enterprise, the cloud -- and, yes, Microsoft too.

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  Will Chrome OS look rusty by 2010?

  Mary Jo Foley: After reading the few Chrome OS details that Google smartly dropped just weeks before Microsoft announces the RTM of Windows 7, I've got a few doubts about the search giant's entry into the operating-system game. It's also telling that many Google fans assume Microsoft is standing still.

  Dennis Howlett: Why Chrome OS is no threat to Windows

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  Chrome OS: Good for you; bad for Microsoft

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  Chrome: Battling for the mother of all monopolies

  Oliver Marks: Google's browser-based OS won't help sell enterprise on Software as a Service. It just gives already harassed IT folks another migraine opportunity. Google will have to step up if they want to unseat incumbent Micosoft in the business desktop OS and productivity apps world.

  Gartner finds lukewarm response to SaaS

  Google announces Chrome OS tech partners

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  Google goes after Windows

  Sam Diaz: Google says it will launch a computer operating system that initially will target netbooks by offering a faster, better and more secure way for users to access Web-based applications.

  Phil Wainewright: Microsoft, hoist by a Chrome petard

  Dennis Howlett: Have people taken leave of their senses?

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  Can Google Chrome build an ecosystem?

  Dana Blankenhorn: It faced its first security alerts, the first blush of backlash, and a threat by Microsoft to put the anti-trust shoe on the other foot. What it has yet to do is build an ecosystem.

  What's Chrome for? Ain't it obvious?

  Google demos speed benchmarks for Chrome

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