Google Chrome: Microsoft killer?, Jul 08, 2009

Experts say Google's new operating system is designed to weaken Microsoft, but the OS battle may have just begun.

Who'd have thought that a rather irritating little note-making C# application could threaten Linux and bring the mighty Debian to its knees? Almost no one. The application in question is called Tomboy, and this little faux Post-It Note utility uses Mono, an open source implementation of Microsoft's .Net framework, to run.

Are virtualized servers (running a mix of Linux and Windows) really starting to push into the SMB space?

A Linux patch has been released to circumvent a Microsoft patent that landed Linux user TomTom in hot water.

Google's new Linux OS is being greeted with both concern and optimism from existing players in the market.

Google's announcement late Tuesday that it's developing a lightweight operating system based on the Chrome browser sounds great at first. But the more I looked into the meager information available, the less attractive the offering seemed.

Google is jumping into Microsoft Windows territory -- and threatening to change the way personal computers work -- with its own version of a computer operating system.

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