“Not Really Theirs, Not Really an OS
Less than a month after that article, Google announced the
intention to produce their own version of an operating system,
Chrome OS. Well, they admitted, it’s not really their own (the
operative kernel is actually Linux), and it’s not really an OS
(just a way to climb on board the Internet), but it will have a
brand-new GUI, which is all the average user sees anyway. The way
they described it, the GUI will do little more than lead you to the
web and then get out of the way.”
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