Called "Fuchsia" (you can't make this stuff up) the OS could be a combination of Android and Chrome or then maybe not.
http://www.androidheadlines.com/2016/08/google-may-new-os-called-fuchsia-works.html
They better hurry, while W10 is still screwed up.
With some PR (never their strong suit) they could get good take-up at the moment.
I've always been satisfied with Windows as my needs for an OS are not difficult: Let me run things, let me find things, play nicely with my toys and don't piss me off.
Windows is currently failing on several on those fronts. I moved some of the team to ChromeOS and that works well. It currently fails for me on "let me run things" - I have too many weird windows only tools. I'm slowly moving away from those though.
You can always run your windows tools on a windows vps. Can be a little pricey and large amounts of data can be a pain, but for smaller jobs it works great.
If MS keeps getting worse, I can see myself converting to a 'nix shop of some flavor and doing this for win tools.
Quote from: Rooftop on August 15, 2016, 01:12:50 PM
I moved some of the team to ChromeOS and that works well. It currently fails for me on "let me run things"
As far as they are concerned, that is a feature rather than a bug.
They'd prefer to kill desktop software so everything becomes cloud-based, so they can either track users & charge advertisers for access to the captive audience or in some cases charge other recurring fees for it.
They generally prefer the ad-based business models tied to monopoly marketshare so that customer support is a non-concern.
Look at how Chrome...
- eventually required all apps to be installed from their official store where users must be logged in
- abitrarily banned AdBlock Plus until they could negotiate a beneficial biz dev deal
- prevents apps being given away free via bundling, (even though Chrome got much of its marketshare via bundling on Flash security updates & even on software like CCleaner)
- disallows clicking into websites that bundle downloads & give huge red warning screens, (even though Chrome got much of its marketshare via bundling on Flash security updates & even on software like CCleaner)
- auto-overwrote some search provider settings back to Google
- etc.
Just yesterday someone complained to me about not being able to install Firefox on a Chromebook.
As they gain marketshare, their predation against the user will only get worse.
I am still with Windows for now, but if I quit that then I'd probably opt for a Mac & after that I'd do Ubuntu or maybe I would learn to configure Linux (or write an OS) :D before I'd consider using any of Google's spyware.
Quote from: Drastic on August 15, 2016, 02:15:48 PM
You can always run your windows tools on a windows vps. Can be a little pricey and large amounts of data can be a pain, but for smaller jobs it works great.
If MS keeps getting worse, I can see myself converting to a 'nix shop of some flavor and doing this for win tools.
Agreed. This would be the way I would go: run either a Mac or Linux with Windows in emulation or a virtual machine.