2010 is going to be scary for Microsoft

I was thinking about predictions and thought maybe I go back to my roots to write something tech.

As such, I am predicting that 2010 is going to be scary for Microsoft. Why? Because of Google; Android 2.0 OS for the phone and Chrome OS for netbooks.

Let’s start with the Android 2.0 OS. Besides being the free OS, I hear mobile apps developers focusing their efforts to create apps for the iPhone and Android mobile OS. Windows Mobile don’t seem to come up in any of these conversations.

I also heard of the iPhone Apps store and the Android Market Place, but nothing about a site that you can go and download Windows Mobile apps.

More mobile phones manufacturers are looking at introducing Android OS based smart phones in 2010 and even Google is rumoured to be launching their own phones.

The Android mobile OS is starting to look more like a plausible alternative to the iPhone OS and might help the mobile phone manufacturers to regain their sexy back.

Google’s Chrome OS should also be a concern for Microsoft especially for the netbook space. The straight to browser OS makes the netbook faster to start up and shut down which has been a bane for Windows XP because of the excess drivers the XP OS have to load or shut down.

Windows 7 seemed to have solved this problem but a home version seem rather heavy on the pre-requisites.

The straight to browser  OS might also be the glue that binds all of Google online applications and Google Docs might start to be more popular than Microsoft Office. That could be THE threat to Microsoft rather than the OS itself.

A straight to browser OS is also good for the flux of tablet PCs coming in next year. I don’t see tablet PCs making their mark for keyboard is like print, it will never go away.

Maybe Microsoft is doing something. It could be a case of Hidden Dragon Crouching Tiger with Microsoft being the Dragon and Google being the Tiger.