by justin scheck
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Microsoft Office Professional 2007, computer giant dell is coming out using a netbook that utilizes google’s operating system instead of microsoft computer software.
google android os was developed for smart phones, but it’s proven attractive to makers of other devices
Office Pro, like netbooks, for its potential to break their dependency on microsoft software and intel chips.
unlike microsoft’s windows software program — which most netbooks currently use — android is free. and it runs on chips that use arm architecture, which are made by companies other than intel. as the wsj reported in april, hewlett-packard has been looking at android for possible future netbooks.
so it was with interest that we saw a press release this morning from a application business called bsquare
Microsoft Office Pro Plus 2007, which said it’s coming up which has a system to use certain adobe systems software on heretofore unannounced “dell netbooks running google’s android platform.”
update, 2:30 p.m.: dell and bsquare now say the announcement of dell’s allegedly forthcoming android netbook shouldn’t have been made. dell spokesman andrew bowins said the press release was published “in error
Office Professional 2010,” though he didn’t deny — or confirm — that the laptop big is working on such a device. “dell constantly assesses new technologies as part of managing our product development process and for consideration in future products,” he wrote in an email. a bsquare spokeswoman also said the press release was erroneous
Windows 7 Ultimate, though she didn’t specify what was incorrect about it.