一上班,就看新浪和网易都登出消息:Google要发布自己的操作系统。随便摘一段:
Google正与沃尔玛及其它零售商商谈,以推出一款名为Google PC的家用电脑。该机器将运行Google开发的操作系统,而不是微软的Windows。也正因为如此,该产品的售价不高,最低可能只有两百美元左右。
这则消息,还真让我一通好找,在一些关于Google的blog上并未得见,而登陆LA Times又慢的惊人。最后,它在这里。
其中有这么几段:
Sources say Google has been in negotiations with Wal-Mart Stores Inc., among other retailers, to sell a Google PC. The machine would run an operating system created by Google, not Microsoft's Windows, which is one reason it would be so cheap — perhaps as little as a couple of hundred dollars.Bear Stearns analysts speculated in a research report last month that consumers would soon see something called "Google Cubes" — a small hardware box that could allow users to move songs, videos and other digital files between their computers and TV sets.
Larry Page, Google's co-founder and president of products, will give a keynote address Friday at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. Analysts suspect that Page will use the opportunity either to show off a Google computing device or announce a partnership with a big retailer to sell such a machine.
这事儿,的确让人摸不着头脑,Google做电脑,目的是什么?就是为了让更多人用它的搜索功能?
如果是这样,这个成本可谓昂贵。
但,这个事儿,你又没法不信。早在2003年12月,有一天晚上Bill Gates在Google的网站上随意浏览,突然看到一个让他无比惊讶的页面:在招聘页面中,Google列举了许多开放的任务,而很多招聘条件跟微软的几乎一样。集中在操作系统设计、编译器优化、分布式系统结构设计——这些技术当然是指向操作系统的。
"我们必须观察这些家伙,看上去他们在做些能跟我们竞争的东西",盖茨这么跟自己说,也这么跟Fortune的Fred Vogelstein说。
毫无疑问,这个酝酿了有两年的事情,最近一定应该有些结果了。
毫无疑问,那将是一个简单、易用、低价、高度开放性的产品。
毫无疑问,紧张的不会只有Gates,还有苹果和Dell。
1/3/2006 10:02:25 PM Post by[旁观者的奇妙冒险]
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