Ordinary Gweilo

After the browser, the operating system.  As with the Chrome browser, it would appear that Google’s main interest may be in prompting Microsoft to respond.  If Microsoft can offer a cheaper (and smaller) OS to run on Netbooks, then that will bring down prices and encourage more people to go online more often – and click on more Google ads.

In other Google news, GMail is no longer in “beta”, a mere ten years after it was launched.  Oh, alright, it’s only just over five years.

Just recently they announced a few more minor improvements, the best of which is that you can ‘hide’ labels that you don’t use very much.   There are a still a whole big pile of things they ought to do, such as label hierachies and allowing you to add or remove emails from conversations (there’s a list of some of them here).  One day.