Via OSnews:
Search titan Google, not to be outdone by the countless other tech companies deciding that netbooks are the best next move for them, may be entering the market with their own subsidized netbook running, what else but Google’s own OS, Android. The netbook will no doubt be running the OS traditionally reserved for phones under optimized settings for the netbook.
Everyone wants a piece of Microsoft’s lucrative netbook OS pie. Linux couldn’t quite take out the chunk it wanted, but Google’s got as good a shot as any. Microfoft CEO Steve Balmer is giving Google the unlikely luxury of being acknowledge as a competitor. Which is something they’d be foolhardy not to do.
I assume we’re going to see Android-based, Linux-based laptops, in addition to phones. We’ll see Google more as a competitor in the desktop operating system business than we ever have before. The seams between what’s a phone operating system and a PC operating system will change, and so we have ramped the investment in the client operating system.
A google netbook running Android could give Windows 90% marketshare a run for its money.
Um… Android is based on Linux.