Opinion : Google Chrome OS, Android Not Aiming For Windows... Yet

So Chrome OS and Android might converge in the future according to Google's co-founder Sergei Brin and already many are talking about the possibility of a potential Google/Windows face-off.

However, the two operating systems are different beasts catering for different audiences just like their alter-egos in the hardware world, ARM's ultra efficient processor environment and Intel's ultra powerful CPU range.

Clearly - and Google has stressed this numerous times - the company is focusing on the mobile market, something that Microsoft, with Windows Mobile 6.5 has been leaving unchecked, if not unloved as the software giant appears to concentrate more on Windows for traditional computing platforms for now.

This is why Windows 7 and Windows 2008 Server appear to have pushed Windows 7 Mobile down the pecking order, sending the latter's launch date well into 2010.

The problem for Microsoft is that as Google smartly noticed, smartphones are becoming very powerful thanks to the single handed effort of ARM, which is not only making of Android one of its preferred partners but also announced a number of projects including the Cortex A9 which is as powerful as many x86 processors and yet consume only a fraction of their power.

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