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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."

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  1. Re:Um... by FuckingNickName · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    You are doing what is typical of a layperson when they're met with technical language, which is to take two different phrases with some similar words then to assume they mean the same thing. Tech geeks hate it when non-geeks do this but somehow think it's acceptable for them to do it in other fields.

    I asserted, "MS didn't have an effective monopoly."

    You asserted, "MS enjoyed monopoly power." You will notice throughout the document that MS is described never as a monopoly but repeatedly as having "monpoly power".

    A "monopoly" can be identified by market share - it's an everyday term, and a term which is defined more precisely by economists (with market share taken into account).

    "Monopoly power" has a specific legal definition in Sherman which is not constructed in terms of market share.