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Holy Crap: Google’s Android Ported To Eee-PC

Yes, I said, “holy crap.” This has got to be huge. One of the most wealthiest, and nicest (might I add), companies in the world has a new direction: your laptop. Besides the fact that Android is now a mobile operating system that will soon be in Nokias, Motorolas, and more HTC’s, it can be ported over to be a fully-functioning computer operating system. Why is this such huge news? Let me take it straight from the horses mouth:

“Here’s the significance: Imagine the billion dollar market at stake here if Google can make good on this vision. Netbooks are basically small-scale PCs. For Silicon Valley myriad of software companies, it means a well-backed, open operating system that is open and ripe for exploitation for building upon. Now think of Chrome, Google’s web browser, and the richness it allows developers to build into the browser’s relationship with the desktop — all of this could usher in a new wave of more sophisticated web applications, cheaper and more dynamic to use. Ramifications abound: What does it mean for the stock price of Microsoft? Microsoft currently owns the vast majority of the desktop operating system market share? In recent weeks, Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer repeatedly dismissed Android as competition to Windows Mobile.”

I can see this becoming huge in the fact that nearly everyone hates Microsoft’s Vista operating system. It’s almost like, we’re rebelling. I’m in that category and would rather go back to Windows XP if I had a copy of the OS available.

Awesomeness.