by Ardrich
September 25, 2010 in News Roundup
As Google announce plans to enter the lucrative laptop market, Facebook continues to deny rumours they are to release their own mobile phone.
The search giant is planning to enter the laptop market with its range of Google-based “netbooks”.
Glen Murphy, the lead designer on Google’s Chrome operating system, said the first Chrome computers are due to go on sale later this year.
by petehindle
June 6, 2010 in Blog, News Roundup
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Several news sites are reporting that Google is no longer offering Windows as an operating system choice to it’s new employees, and encouraging existing employees to migrate to a different OS. This shouldn’t be a surprise.
Firstly, Google is releasing it’s own operating system later this year, the Linux-based Google Chrome. Secondly, the languages that are most useful to Google Engineers are not the languages that are the easiest to develop with inside Windows.
