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"Google Inc. and Dell Inc. said on Thursday that the No. 1 personal computer maker will install Google software on its systems, potentially dealing a blow to Microsoft Corp. ."

rest of the story is here : http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060525/tc_nm/google_dell_dc;_ylt=Aqy.INOrtolJPdDPrS8lDE8jtBAF;_ylu=X3oDMTA5aHJvMDdwBHNlYwN5bmNhdA--

5/26/2006 11:54:36 AM

who cares. i'd just reformat the machine anyway.

this is just an easy way for dell to bring in $texas.

5/26/2006 12:13:56 PM

5/26/2006 12:57:45 PM

I guess it's official now ... Google Desktop has been installed on Dell Systems since Jan I think.

5/26/2006 1:01:20 PM

^ no way in hell since jan. i just got a new dell desktop for my mom within the past month and it had nothing from google installed on it.

5/26/2006 1:43:34 PM

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"^ no way in hell since jan. i just got a new dell desktop for my mom within the past month and it had nothing from google installed on it."

I've ordered two machines from Dell for people in the last 2 months and both had Google Desktop installed if I remember correctly.

5/26/2006 2:18:26 PM

home or business?

5/26/2006 2:32:15 PM

good for both...while personally it annoys me to no end to have to remove the crap pc manufacturers put on the computer for my "convenience", google really IS good at what it does, and i think that the average user will find the google desktop to be of benefit to them (once they learn to use it, of course)...if i ever buy a new dell i'll probably just remove it like i do with every other new computer, but eh

^^^^^ wtf? i completely missed any info on GoogleOS...googling it now

[Edited on May 26, 2006 at 2:42 PM. Reason : gooOS]

5/26/2006 2:40:20 PM

Home

5/26/2006 2:49:15 PM

that's really weird. mine came from Home as well and it had nothing installed from google. i would know too since i took off a lot of the preinstalled crap they put on for my mom. very odd.

5/26/2006 2:54:07 PM

^ Dell has several different builds.

5/26/2006 3:54:36 PM

so will there be a way to make google os not look like it was designed for a 5 year old?

5/28/2006 4:28:51 PM

i'm pretty sure you can choose different schemes (same as using win2k style on winxp)

5/28/2006 4:39:23 PM

no way i'll ever run any google desktop

they are always recording everything anbody does

they are king of all stalkers and spyware

5/28/2006 9:25:02 PM

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"that's really weird. mine came from Home as well and it had nothing installed from google. i would know too since i took off a lot of the preinstalled crap they put on for my mom. very odd."

My soon to be mother-in-law just came in this week for the wedding and today she had me take a look at her laptop because she doesn't know what she is doing... Its a dell m600 she bought a month ago and sure enough there was Google Desktop on it.

5/29/2006 2:22:11 AM