Comments on: Why Google Chrome OS Could Save Microsoft and Intel From Themselves

By: Rukesh

Rukesh — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 06:22:33 +0000

Conceding the low-end doesn’t mean winning the high-end… History is replete with the low-end disruptive players getting a foot in the door and then gobbling up the market one ‘uneconomic low-end’ zone at a time until they became the new behemoth… isn’t that the history of Microsoft, Intel, nVidia, Compaq, Dell, and a host of other stars of the PC industry? They started out at the very low-end and the incumbents in their case conceded that low-end only to be gradually pushed out of their very market (IBM, Digital, Silicon Graphics, Sun, etc)… What Google is doing is disruptive and is certainly a threat… Intel understands this well and has prevented low-end disruption zealously with their Celeron and Atom lines.

By: SallyRed

SallyRed — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 11:56:11 +0000

I’m not sure about Intel, but I had the misfortune to work with some ’senior’ Microsoft software architects not too long back, and I came away with the opinion that nothing scares MS more than inovation, and that is what we are finally beginning to see make inroads into their dominance of the supply chain.
I think that we’ve already seen the beginning of the end for Microsoft.

By: ayush

ayush — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 07:26:19 +0000

but i do love the point that it creates a boundry in which windows cannot complete, atleast not windows 7 but maybe mobile or CE.

By: ayush

ayush — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 07:22:39 +0000

Many are saying there will be an emergence of another class rather than the reclassifictaion of the netbook. Smaller cheaper netbooks i.e. smartbooks.