Where Is Firefox OS?

adeelarshad82 writes "Microsoft's very simple yet graceful concept raises a very big question. The way Microsoft is planning out Windows 8, developers will be able to write one HTML 5 app which will run across every Windows 8 form factor, from desktops to laptops, to ARM netbooks and tablets. Given the concept, if you remove the operating system — or at least make it transparent enough that the browser becomes the platform — then suddenly every piece of software works across every piece of hardware which raises the question that why Mozilla hasn't considered a Firefox OS?"

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Because firefox is shit?

[Bizzeh]

i know im going to get marked as a troll for this, but i dont care.. its true, mozilla themselves said that firefox is shit (slashdot story in the last 12 months, not sure of link or title)

Re:Easy.

[fyngyrz]

Well, lets put it this way, then: Windows 8 will be a slow piece of shit. In addition, it looks like it will be incompatible with every piece of windows software currently out there, unless I completely misunderstand (they're telling us developers we can't use the old tools... so I take that to mean that the old tools won't produce usable code, therefore previously released code.... junked.)

The one thing of value Windows offered -- to me -- was long term backwards compatibility. With that gone, it's basically an entirely new OS, and you know what.. no thanks. I'd rather move to linux, which is very well established by comparison. Assuming my Mac somehow became dysfunctional.