[brlug-general] Not everybody thingks that Chrome OS is goingtobe all that great..

[SR]

On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 2:54 PM, Dustin Puryear <dpuryear at puryear-it.com>wrote:

> I never said Google was the one overhyping it.


Nor did I say you said that.  You had a reading comprehension check lately?

:P



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> goingtobe all that great..
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> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 10:30 AM, Dustin Puryear <dpuryear at puryear-it.com>
> wrote:
> I did read it f00l. :)
>
> Then you should have gotten that it was just nitpicking over one sentence
> which was a security claim.
>
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> I think there is some overhyping here.
>
> What over-hyping?  You must travel in different circles than I do...  All
> I've heard about Chrome OS is a press release and one blog post.  The only
> reason it might be hyped is a) this is from Google b) there has been years
> of speculation and c) it's new, as opposed to Windows 7 which is a service
> pack for vista, which was a service pack for....  ad nauseum
>
> My week in news has been about a 0-day for IE which is being actively
> exploited  (does anyone really use IE for anything besides windows update
> anymore?), an OpenSSH vulnerability which was a hoax, and the DDoS against
> government sites using, *gasp*, compromised Windows PCs.
>
> Sorry, that's what I think.
>
> You're free to have any opinion you wish.  Doesn't make it right.  ;-)
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