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Wednesday, July 08, 2009

Google O/S ? and my personal wish list ...

Firstly, what do they have against MS - it seems that everything they do seems to be aimed at the former monopoly of Microsoft, Google themselves have such a stranglehold on 'online' whilst they claim to "do no evil", or what ever the slogan is (Matt Cutts promises a post on the truth behind it, but as yet hasn't done it) ...

So Google are producing an operating system that will be designed around cloud computing - Great! But there are things that I want to do locally... even with a ligher o/s. I am hoping that apps will still work well enough - this includes:

1. Watch videos either locally, across a network with UPNP support (Media server) or over the internet, but I really do want the option of locally so when I go on the train, I can ...

2. As mentioned above, UPNP type support, for music, photos and video - for what I have in mind for this, it is required.

3. Offline editing - I spend two thirds of my time in front of Excel and Word - this I want at least to have a usable substitute...

I also want "coms" options including video, audio ...

Connectivity with Bluetooth (wifi is a given)

And this if Google brings out the O/S should be an awesome "home" always ready system, that can stay plugged into the TV ready to be switched over to a media centre, communications system that frankly an always on, power hungry system I am just not comfortable with ...

Who knows, android maybe the better system already for this...


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