Very interesting! Apparently Google is working to buy their way onto a desktop near you! Well, this may not only open the way for Firefox to compete seriously with IE, it could also be the catalyst for Linux to make a bigger move with real Dell offered driver support, too.

As you may know, Google is close to making a deal with Dell in which the search giant will get to preinstall its software package on Dell PCs. What you may not know is that Google may be spending a billion dollars over three years for the privilege.

For cash-rich Google, it’s a cheap price to pay to cut Microsoft off at the knees by getting pride of place on about 33 percent on all new U.S. desktops. [Read the rest]

[tags]firefox,dell,desktop linux,cash-rich[/tags]