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Google has taken direct aim at Microsoft’s core personal computer software business, with the announcement of a PC operating system to rival Windows.

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Google also promised that the new software would solve many of the frustrations felt by users of Windows-based PCs, from slow start-up times to threats from computer viruses.

Google’s venture into the PC operating system business caps a steady move into software that has seen it encroach on to Microsoft’s turf.

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In other veiled attacks on the Windows operating system, Google added that users “want their computers to always run as fast as when they first bought them”, and that they “don’t want to spend hours configuring their computers to work with every new piece of hardware, or have to worry about constant software updates.”

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The new software, based on the so-called kernel, or core, of the open-source Linux operating system, had been designed to run Web-based applications such as those developed by Google itself, the company said, making it the first PC operating system developed from scratch for the internet age.

In another attack on one of the main pillars of Microsoft’s business, Google said developers would be able to write applications for the Chrome OS using standard web development tools – a challenge to Microsoft’s own developer tools business.

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“Speed, simplicity and security are the key aspects of Google Chrome OS,” said Sundar Pichai, a Google Vice President, and Linus Upson, engineering director, in a blog post. “We're designing the OS to be fast and lightweight, to start up and get you on to the web in a few seconds.”

The news spread quickly on the blogosphere, with many commentators applauding the move. The influential TechCrunch blog said it was a “genius play”, arguing that Microsoft’s XP software on netbooks was eight years old, making it a good target.

“Let’s be clear on what this really is,” MG Seigler, a TechCrunch writer, said. “This is Google dropping the mother of bombs on its chief rival, Microsoft.”

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ORIGINAL: Aneirin

I have Vista and that did it for me, win 98 I was happy with until it started getting holey. Vista might be ok for some, but my chipset according to intel can run vista, but not at it's best, my puter is one of those from the beginning of vista being put on retail machines. When the thing plays up, I keep waving an XP pro disc at it to behave itself, as I am sure my computer responds to my moods. One day, Vista will get it and XP PRO should fly on this machine, but the plan is to dual boot wuth Linux XP desktop, before I jump out of microshit forever. But who knows, I might have an I- Mac coming next year.

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ORIGINAL: Aneirin

But are you a tweeker, or just a user that wants the thing to effing work when they need it ?

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ORIGINAL: Aneirin

Oh, and those registry cleaner things, mechanics etc, scary, as a normal user, I fear those things, for I am aware, that I as just a user am not aware just what needs deleting and what does not from the scan results, and people blindly trust those things, scary.

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ORIGINAL: Aneirin

No, they are not, but I believe there is one endorsed by microshit, or at least something to do with them.

But registry cleaners, many use them in the belief that they do what they say they do, which is fine, they do get rid of some junk, but also take chunks out of other things that are not junk. The result is, though a system might appear to move quicker, it will for a while, until all the holes stack up and things stop working. Often leading to a person believing their pc is shot and time for a new one.

I f windows was so fab, why would there be a market for such programmes, obviously people believe windows needs a helping hand, or else why use them.