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boygeniusreport.com - 12/8/2008

Google working on a new mystery OS?

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After dropping a pretty big bomb recently with news that Microsoft’s OS market share has dropped below 90% for the first time in 15 years, Net Applications is at it again. The well known market research firm is now causing a wave of speculation with regards to a possible new OS that ...

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thinkgos.com - 12/1/2008

Discover a Good OS - Press - Good OS Announces Cloud

— thinkgos.com — Good OS Announces Cloud — A New Operating System for 2009 Cloud boots into a browser with... Google, Yahoo!, and Live in seconds on GIGABYTE Convertible Netbook NETBOOK WORLD SUMMIT; PARIS, France — December 1, 2008 — Good OS, most known for its gOS ... (more) Discover a Good OS - Press - Good OS Announces Cloud

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appleinsider.com - 12/11/2008

Apple working on 3D Mac OS X user interface (images)

— appleinsider.com — A series of Apple patent filings published this week reveal the Mac maker has spent a considerable... amount of time outlining a new multi-dimensional interface for Mac OS X that would make better use of screen real estate by increasing the number of ... (more) Apple working on 3D Mac OS X user interface (images)

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Is stripped user agent data pointing to a Google OS?
Engadget — ... firm Net Applications is reporting that it has seen a third of the traffic from Google's employees with intentionally blocked identification strings. This could be a real indicator that the big G is hard at work on a desktop OS -- or just a sign that folks at Google don't care to share their OS of choice. Hopefully, we'll be hearing more sooner rather than later, but feel free to chime in with your Google global domination theories and rabid speculation in the comments. [Via Boy Genius Report] Filed under: Desktops, Laptops Is stripped user agent ...

Google May be Working on New Computer OS
I4U News — ... traffic leaving the IP, browser and other info intact. BGR quotes Net Applications saying, "We have never seen an OS stripped off the user agent string before. I believe you have to arrange to have that happen, it’s not something we’ve seen before with a proxy server. All I can tell you is there’s a good percentage of the people at Google showing up [at Web pages] with their OS hidden." Scuttlebutt says that this is an expanded version of Android that could be running on PCs. Via BGR Posted on Mon, 8 Dec 2008 06:45:30 CST | by Shane McGlaun ...

Google OS rumor reignites after mystery surfers recorded
SlashGear — ... of rumors.  Some are predicting a desktop version of the search giant’s open-source Android OS, deployed as a way of introducing Linux to entry-level users. Meanwhile, others believe Google is being a little more cautious, and instead working on an application infrastructure that would bridge local hardware and network applications, such as its online office suite and GMail.  Similar suggestions were made at the launch of Google’s browser, Chrome. [via BGR] ...