Microsoft’s new OS is drawing fanfare from the IT community

Windows 7 may go down in history not only as the most popular commercial Windows operating system to date, but also as the operating system that convinced regular consumers and business users to switch to a 64-bit operating system.

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Google pulled the wraps off of Chrome OS today, and while there isn’t a general availability announcement today, they spoke briefly about the Chrome browser (Linux and Mac versions due this year, along with support for extensions) before diving into the nascent OS. You can expect to see Chrome ship in about a year, and showed the first glimpses of the new OS, details about the architecture, the hardware it will run on, and gave us the first hints about what the Google Cloud OS will really look like.

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