Sergey Brin: Windows Is "Torturing Users"

Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday May 12, 2011 @01:56AM 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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Re:Isn't leaving things out fun? by thsths · 2011-05-12 05:20 · Score: 3, Informative

> If Windows, by his definition, is torture, then Linux is doubly so.
I don't think so. Linux has is problems, but most distributions have a pretty sound "no none-sense" concept when it comes to PC maintenance. Automatic updates actually work, cover all applications (not just the OS), do not fail because of locked files, and reboots are rarely required. Linux viruses are very rare, even on Joe's and Jane's default Ubuntu installation round the corner.
MacOS is also doing much better, making this mostly a Windows problem.