Google Android Netbooks Coming By 2010?

Rumors have been flying for the past several years about Google coming out with there own operating system. When Android was released by Google we assumed that it was for mobile phones only. Now it appears that Android may end up being released on Netbooks sometime in 2010.

In an article from VentureBeat it states that:

Here’s the significance: Imagine the billion dollar market at stake here if Google can make good on this vision. Netbooks are basically small-scale PCs. For Silicon Valley myriad of software companies, it means a well-backed, open operating system that is open and ripe for exploitation for building upon. Now think of Chrome, Google’s web browser, and the richness it allows developers to build into the browser’s relationship with the desktop — all of this could usher in a new wave of more sophisticated web applications, cheaper and more dynamic to use. Ramifications abound: What does it mean for the stock price of Microsoft? Microsoft currently owns the vast majority of the desktop operating system market share? In recent weeks, Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer repeatedly dismissed Android as competition to Windows Mobile.

If this comes to pass, Google’s Android could break Microsoft’s hold on the operating system market. It would also open a new choice by consumers.

What do you think? Would you purchase a non-Microsoft computer?

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