---
title: "Poll: Will Google develop a GoogleOS?"
date: 2006-11-23
author: "Richard MacManus"
categories:
  - name: "ReadWriteWeb"
    url: "/category/readwriteweb.md"
tags:
  - name: "2006"
    url: "/tag/2006.md"
---

# Poll: Will Google develop a GoogleOS?

Our post this week [about GoogleOS](https://web.archive.org/web/20111117100803/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/googleos_what_to_expect.php) led to some vigorous and fascinating discussion in Read/WriteWeb. 87 mostly thoughtful comments were left here, plus many more on [Slashdot](https://web.archive.org/web/20111117100803/http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/11/22/1415221) and [Digg](https://web.archive.org/web/20111117100803/http://digg.com/tech_news/GoogleOS_What_To_Expect).

To get a final, more succinct, picture of whether R/WW readers expect to see a GoogleOS – here is a poll for you. I hope there are sufficient options in it, but you’ll notice that option 6 is open-ended and invites you to leave a comment to explain more (at the risk of duplicating the comments in the original post). Also re #4, that’s a reference to [Robert Scoble’s](https://web.archive.org/web/20111117100803/http://scobleizer.com/2006/11/21/what-to-do-when-youre-bored-talk-about-google-os/)[comment](https://web.archive.org/web/20111117100803/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/googleos_what_to_expect.php#comment-6686) that Emre and I must’ve been “smoking good crack” 😉 There were some even more brutal comments that came our way, but in the end that only showed it was a thought provoking post that many people had opinions on 🙂

*Originally published on ReadWriteWeb ([archived copy](https://web.archive.org/web/20020204040018/http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/poll_will_google_develop_googleos.php))*