At first I just thought: Yes, well, basically this is just an OS for mobile phones. Only just now on Google. I did not think that this operating system is sometimes as important. But since I've probably been deceived. Right now, I guess Google Android as very important.

Android has a lot of advantages for manufacturers of mobile devices. Let us begin with that Android is an open source operating system. You may use it and use it as a basis for further developments. This makes development cheaper by far. In addition, Google Android can be kept up to date. The manufacturer is no more then so much the hat. Again, costs are saved.

The above considerations lead to the step that Android is increasingly "built" in mobile devices. This leads to Adam Riese (and Eva Klein ) To a higher prevalence of the Google OS. A higher spread but also makes the operating system for app developers more attractive. At the moment there is according to Wikipedia, about 30,000 apps in the Android Market. Natural tendency to rise. More apps, of course, increase the interest of customers for a terminal with Android. Finally, there is something worth if you have an ample selection of apps to expand the unit after your purchase.
We are practically in a cycle: higher proliferation -> more apps -> more customers -> higher spread.

And the spread has already become high, even though the system has only been recently. But it's not just mobile phones. On other mobile devices like the Archos Internet Tablet or the day before yesterday on Scatterd präsentiertem WePad comes to Android applications. This makes it the universal operating system for mobile devices.

So we can say in summary that Google Android is a great coup succeeded. On the one hand, Google has a prestigious status of the matter, because they have developed Android. On the other hand, the market is driven so enormous, and not least mobile device manufacturers have a huge cost advantage of it.

Have you heard this? Like a press release announced, can the project OpenPandora the open source Pandora handheld is almost completed and the unit will soon be ready for sale. The unit is equipped with a 4.3 inch touchscreen has a 600 Mhz ARM processor and has Wi-Fi on board. The battery life is approximately 10 hours, and a 43-key keyboard, also. The device is a bit bigger than a Nintendo DS fits, but still in a trouser pocket. But all these facts are not even that interesting, even though that sounds. After all, the device has a processor twice as fast as a PSP, is about as fast as the new iPhone 3G . Actually a little bit faster. But here's the best.

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It is, in my opinion, a very exciting project. If not the most exciting. I'm talking about Chrome OS, the operating system from the search engine giant Google . Now, the big G, the OS is first presented . At first glance, it looks no different than a simple browser. However, hiding behind it more?

Google suggests a Chrome OS a whole new way than the conventional ones. The OS is built entirely on the online world and its applications. Then your data is not stored on your computer and the local hard drive, but online. Also, applications can not be downloaded and run offline, so to speak, but must all be available online. Google Chrome does the job by managing the various applications and user data (login information, etc.) providing the services.

The operating system is built on a Linux kernel. So far, therefore, in principle, nothing other than a Ubuntu or SuSE. You might think. From the outside, but you can see no resemblance to the popular Linux distributions. Runs is the OS on x86 CPU's (would be interesting to know whether the CPU work with 64-bit extension). Particularly impressive is to be the boot time. This should amount to only a few seconds. Is, in principle, but nothing special, after all, the system starts (as described above) is a browser.

The security of the OS should not be ignored. Thus, the system runs in a sandbox and applications can not access the kernel. That's a good thing, because then the operating system will not actually tampered with. If still something "happens": When booting the system durchgeleuchtet shortly. If inconsistencies occur, Chrome OS tries to eliminate them. So "heals" itself Chrome in that it replaces the malicious code by healthy code. This brings the system from the network (who would have thought differently?).

So overall a very exciting thing. For small devices and netbooks, I can imagine the system very well. How is all this but overall developed, one can not say. Some say that Chrome OS will be the end for Apple and Microsoft, others say the opposite. And it looks like no one knows. Here's a short video about Chrome OS.

[Youtube] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0QRO3gKj3qw [/ youtube]

Today is the day: we write 22 October of 2009. Windows 7 is finally released in stores and is available immediately for purchase for consumers. I had, like many other users probably, before installing the RC, and could not expect it, finally, the final hold in their hands, because: Even the RC was so advanced that with the operating system in nearly 5 months in which I it was installed, not once is greased. I was also one of the lucky ones who had the opportunity to acquire a Windows 7 on sale coupon. That said, I was able to purchase Windows 7 for 50 €. Who can remember: The coupons were limited to 1,000,000 units worldwide. At Amazon Germany, they were sold out within 7 minutes. Fortunately, I had in my local MediMax luckier. Anyway, here is my first report on Windows 7 Read more

As I have already written a few days ago, now the Windows 7 RC for all users on the Internet is available. So I do not shilly-long and I downloaded the 2.5 GB iso file. I mean, was recently praised the new operating system from Microsoft is so high that you must try it if you already have the chance. In addition, the RC will run until mid-2010, all that is over a year. As you lose nothing. I'll see in this short and crisp review whether the hype is justified by the new system, or whether to remain in their old XP users nostalgic system.

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