Microsoft, on the other hand, aims to press the power of the web into its desktop experience.
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It runs smoother, it’s more beautiful in full screen, it’s refined. Most Chrome OS apps aren’t so much “apps” as they are web bookmarks: Google’s own YouTube “app” is just a link to, Netflix’s “app” goes to, and so forth. Google’s mantra is “the web is what you make it.” It’s based on a philosophy that says that anything you need to do–read the news, watch a movie, check your email, open a file–can be done, and done better, in the cloud by using Google News, YouTube, Gmail, or Google Drive. If you’ve had the chance to play around with a Windows 8 laptop and Chrome OS netbook like we have, though, here’s the difference. That might sound like a subtle distinction but the user experience is night and day. In Windows 8, apps give you web access, while keeping out the web’s chaos.
So perhaps it’s high time Google takes a few notes from Microsoft, maker of the world’s most widely used operating system, which is taking a decidedly different bet on its latest entry, Windows 8: that consumers actually want the web to feel more like a desktop. Chrome OS is in the process of a major redesign–with a new interface called Aura.
Windows 8 is a bet that users actually want the web to feel more like a desktop.īut lackluster sales signal that perhaps Google is taking the wrong approach, or at least that it’s too soon for such a radical change.
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