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Sergey Brin: Windows Is "Torturing Users"

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the apple-is-waterboarding-me dept.

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."

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  1. Wait, what? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

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

  2. Re:Isn't leaving things out fun? by Halo1 · · Score: 3, Funny

    The Mac loses its network connection constantly

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

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  3. Re:Google spy agency by Desler · · Score: 3, Funny

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

  4. Re:Home users don't want to do even that much work by toastar · · Score: 4, Funny

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