A poorly debugged set of device drivers
[Netscape will soon reduce Windows to] a poorly debugged set of device drivers.
Them’s fighting words, and I think of them this morning, reading some of the press and commentary about Chrome OS, the new egg to pop out of Google’s backside.
Netscape was almost single-minded in their focus on toppling Microsoft and making the browser the OS. They failed miserably.
Now it’s Google’s turn to try and become the OS. They’re doing a very Mac-like thing in specifying the exact hardware that the OS will run on. Interesting how “closed” it seems too. While it’s built as a subset of Linux (er, pardon me, GNU/Linux), there doesn’t seem to be the traditional opportunity to get under the hood. Unless I haven’t read that bit yet.
They’re saying it’s for netbooks (and I think that’s true), but it’s a short hop from there to tablets, and I think the actual competition for this device will be Apple’s mythical tablet device.