Google’s plan for a computing platform to dethrone Microsoft

Once again the question remains: Could Google be working to dethrown MS? Not only could they, but they have the power to take Linux and do what Linspire has been trying to do all this time, thus making it something that a PC newbie can use without various driver issues.

Google has dazzled the tech world with a series of new features, acquisitions and a hiring binge of stellar figures such as Vint Cerf. But what is the company really up to?

Author Stephen Arnold says Google is this era’s transformational computing platform and could be about to push aside Microsoft from the center of the technology universe.

In the ebook , “The Google Legacy; How Google’s Internet Search is Transforming Application Software,” Arnold says Google is about much more than search.

Google’s computing platform, which Arnold calls Googleplex after the name of the company’s Mountain View, Calif. headquarters, is a faster, cheaper and simpler computer processor and operating system than competitor systems, he says. Its price advantage is five or six to one over other hardware. Massively parallelized and distributed, its processing capability can be expanded indefinitely. [Read the rest]