http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aqmG9V6flOMg

Google is coming out with a free Operating System in 2010.

Last few times I tried installing Microsoft Windows on a computer it was a pretty half-assed set of drivers. I don't know how Microsoft is going to compete, even if they were giving it away free, but yeah, let's see, FREE Google or $149 for Microsoft. what idiot is going to pay $149 dollars for Windows, when it barely works anymore.

by the way, some asshole gave me a virus knocking out my modem off and on. has anyone else gotten this? It exploits your Adobe Acrobat reader. It's a very sophisticated virus, the anti-virus software is completely useless and it survives formatting.

July 10 (Bloomberg) -- Google Inc.’s planned Chrome operating system will be on millions of personal computers and may eventually lure users away from Microsoft Corp.’s Windows, Google Chief Executive Officer Eric Schmidt said.

“We don’t have numbers, we know it will be millions,” Schmidt said in an interview yesterday with Bloomberg Television. “It’s certainly possible” the software will gain share from Microsoft, he said. “It’s certainly also possible that Microsoft will change its strategy to address that.”

Google, grappling with a slowdown in online advertising, aims to drive more users to its sites including the search engine, the world’s most popular. The operating system will be free and is slated to be installed first on small laptops, called netbooks, next year.