Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Google's Chrome OS To Launch In Fall

Posted by timothy on from the wish-chrome-would-work-for-my-gmail dept.

Kidfork writes "On Wednesday Google's vice president of product management said that this fall Google will launch Chrome OS to compete with Microsoft Windows. More than 70 million users already use the Chrome Browser, and Google expects at least 1 million users of the OS by day one of release."

1 of 375 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Um... by TheRaven64 · · Score: 5, Informative

    Wasn't it already said that it's illegal to integrate your browser into your operating system?

    No, integrating a web browser into an operating system is completely legal. It is illegal, however, to attempt to use an effective monopoly in the desktop operating systems market to gain an effective monopoly in the web browser market.

    Google has approximately no market share in the desktop OS market, so this is not an issue. They may have an effective monopoly in the search engine market (debatable), but they are not requiring Chrome or ChromeOS for their search engine so this is also not an issue.

    --
    I am TheRaven on Soylent News