IDC analyst Al Hilwa said Chrome Operating system will take some hard selling by Google and its partners to get on netbooks, those hard disk-less machines from Asus, Dell, HP and others that let users access Web applications. He wonders if consumers and enterprises will accept only running Web applications and not local apps. Gartner analyst Ray Valdes wonders how serious potential hardware partners will be about Chrome OS. Will netbook makers use Chrome OS as a bargaining chip to get better deals on Windows operating system licenses from Microsoft?
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Should Google Chrome Operating System sees the light of
day a year from now as the company expects, it will take 10 years before it
begins to see serious enterprise adoption, an analyst told eWEEK.
IDC analyst Al Hilwa said Chrome OS, which Google
officials released to open source …