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IBM Drops Two Bombs on Microsoft

Its pretty common knowledge to most folk in SV that Google's next step is a Linux distribution that uses their Chrome browser as the user interface, and of course ties into their cloud based services for office applications.

This provides the fuctionality of windows + office, and, it will be (of course) FREE.

I would guess that Google will probably produce it as both a thin client version and a traditional OS version. This OS completes their capture of the entire food chain; it's the only missing piece. It explains a lot of the engineering Google put into Chrome, multi threaded java, etc.

THIS will be the death of the windows seat tax for corporate users. Whether a corporation has 5 or 500,000 seats to pay for, the price of "free" looks pretty good.