Sergey Brin: Windows Is "Torturing Users"

jbrodkin writes "Google created Chrome OS because Windows is 'torturing users,' Google co-founder Sergey Brin says. Only about 20% of Google employees use Windows, with the rest on Mac and Linux, and Brin hopes that by next year nearly all Googlers will be using Chromebooks. 'With Microsoft, and other operating system vendors, I think the complexity of managing your computer is really torturing users,' Brin told reporters at Google I/O. '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.' Google claims 75% of business users could be moved from Windows computers to Chrome laptops."

Comments

Wait, what?

[Anonymous Coward]

They use Linux (amongst others) because managing Windows is too complex. Seriously?

Re:Isn't leaving things out fun?

[cpu6502]

>>>"Sergey Brin thinks managing your own computer is 'torture'."

I think Sergey Brin is just off his rocker. I've had Windows XP for almost ten years now, and I don't have to "manage" anything. Every year or so I wipe the drive with a fresh XP-CD install, and need to reinstall my favorite programs, but that would be true of any OS, whether it's Mac, Lubuntu, or Chrome. Otherwise WinXP just works. Like my car. Or my microwave*. Or my stereo.

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* The lightbulb burned out, but it still works after 20 years.

Re:Isn't leaving things out fun?

[Halo1]

The Mac loses its network connection constantly

Now we finally know why it takes forever to copy that 17MB file.

Re:Google spy agency

[Desler]

I think he meant to say "It's torturing me that more people aren't sending us all of their data."

Re:Home users don't want to do even that much work

[toastar]

Dude, Just because you fix her PC, It doesn't make her your girlfriend.