Ars Technica // Google denies plans to distribute OS based on Ubuntu

Gizmo · 31-January-06, 05:00 PM

Reports are circulating that Google "is preparing its own distribution of Linux for the desktop, in a possible bid to take on Microsoft in its core business - desktop software." Google has told us that this isn't true.

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Nerdz · 31-January-06, 05:23 PM

Instead, google will use Windows. Google and microsoft plan to join forces in the Near Future. Reuters report google and microsoft have been working On the project For over 5 Years. Google says the project is going well, but microsoft still has issues to work on with secrity.

Google reports to having its own OS based on the google search engine

Just kidding, if google wanted to make an OS, they would base it on the google search engine (those little things for companys..)

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Nerdz Sir Knight of Spamalot Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Water-hoe-Bury, CT Posts: 6,587	Instead, google will use Windows. Google and microsoft plan to join forces in the Near Future. Reuters report google and microsoft have been working On the project For over 5 Years. Google says the project is going well, but microsoft still has issues to work on with secrity. Google reports to having its own OS based on the google search engine Just kidding, if google wanted to make an OS, they would base it on the google search engine (those little things for companys..) __________________ I still fold "No amount of Experimentation can Prove Me right, It only takes one to prove me Wrong"-Albert Einstein

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