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IT managers and other experts don't expect a Google OS to upend Microsoft and the Windows OS anytime soon, but it will likely settle into a niche with netbooks and other devices. When it becomes available next year, Google said its Chrome OS will be a free, open source project, separate from Android, which is designed for mobile phones. Chrome, which is based on the Linux OS, will focus on Web applications and will overlap with Android in some areas.
"Using it for email, sure, but my Blackberry does a fine job already," Leeds said. "Spreadsheet and presentation, depends. But do I really want my corporate budget stored in the cloud? And where is that cloud? There are certain data locality issues that fall under various regulatory requirements -- HIPAA, SOX, EU. What support for encryption, both in transit and at rest, will there be in Web-based applications?"
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