Everyone is getting carried away with Google’s announcement that it will release a thin-client, web-oriented operating system targeting netbooks that will be released … in a year. Did you get all that? A whole year from now. It will be a thin client! Your computer will boot to a browser. This is interesting, but it’s [...]

Paul Thurrott reports that Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer, admitted that Google will represent the next significant threat to the Windows ecosystem. Ballmer foresees Google adapting its Android operating system (currently a smart phone OS) for netbook computers, and eventually desktops. I don’t know why I hadn’t anticipated this, to be honest. Consumers are migrating toward [...]