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* gOS and the $200 Walmart PC *
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Well, it looks like the move away from the desktop is in full swing. I remember theorizing about the Google/Microsoft endgame scenario which went something like this:

Google would litter the Earth with GoogleOS CDs much in the same way that AOL has littered the Earth with their "1000 free hours" CDs. People would pop these into their PCs and they would be able to boot up, get online, and do stuff. Word processing, no problem. Photo editing, no problem. Email, no problem. It'd all point at Google and their partners and it'd all have no out of pocket costs for the user. And like that...Microsoft would would be in deep trouble. Not that they're not already in deep trouble, but the GoogleOS CD would really accelerate the decline of the lumbering giant (troll?).

Then I see this $200 Walmart PC that gets entry level users online and functional in a non-Microsoft world. Whoa. Way back when, people would start their truly productive computing lives on a Microsoft OS when they started work. I think they must have mistaken their productivity to be as a result of using Windows rather than as a function of their sheer need to get stuff done in order to keep their jobs.

But I digress...the $200 buck PC with linux and links to the web is a great way to go. I wonder if the MSNTV users would be interested in this?












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