Apple went to war head on and failed. Linux tried “free” but their efforts were unfocused and uncoordinated.

Google took a different tactic. It’s seeded a revolution by handing out weapons of mass destruction to everyday people.

Rather than fight the war itself, Google took the role of “arms dealer” and started giving away weapons of mass destruction for free.

Those weapons?

Gmail, Google Docs, Google Analytics, Google Maps, Adwords and Adsense, Google Voice, Android, the Chrome browser, the Chrome OS…and others.

When you think about it this way…Google isn’t fighting anyone…and Microsoft is literally fighting everyone…very clever.

I never count Microsoft out, but one has to wonder how can they compete when everyday people have such powerful alternatives…or should I say weapons?

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Google: Arms Dealing in Weapons of Mass Destruction

Tech Crunch’s MG Siegler article on Oct 12 talks about his discovery of the “Chrome OS” folder during his daily visit to download the latest Chromium for the Mac.

Johnathan Frederickson talks about his experience of trying out the OS build on his blog “Living in a Google World”. There are also some screen shots there.

To read more from Tech Crunch, go here.

To read more on “Living in a Google World” Blog, go here.

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Chrome OS sightings…

Song Jiang of “Shanzi.com” says it’s hearing whispers about the OS showing up on a device from China “soon” on devices powered by the Chinese-designed Loongson CPU.

Though I would love to see it, I’m guessing that it’s a very stripped down version of Chrome if anything because it’s too early…unless of course Google has something else up it’s sleeve.

Read more about it from Song Jiang  here.

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Sneak peak of Chrome OS on a device from China?

Catching up to myself a bit. Last year I was psyched on Chrome as a browser. Then I found myself in the world of Social Games working for Zynga. Made FarmVille along the way and now with the first long weekend in a long time, I thought I would get back into some of the things I used to do.

What a year it has been. Chrome is now an OS.

Reading back to some of the articles, we could all see it coming.

Can’t wait to catch up on everything.

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What a year this has been; Chrome went from browser to OS.