The New York Times: Upload Store, Play and Share in a Few Clicks - David Pogue, December 1, 2005

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Glide is a "full-blown operating system."

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"Genius...Glide's core idea is unassailably fresh and useful."

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Summary:

 

Glide treats each file type -- photos, songs, videos, documents -- nearly identically, representing each file as a thumbnail icon in your personal stash. You use a menu to switch from one "environment" (say, photos) to another (like music). At the bottom of each environment is an area where you can create "containers" -- that is, playlists (for music and video clips), albums (for photos), address book groups (for e-mail), and so on. You fill up these containers by simply dragging the appropriate thumbnails from the top part of the screen. You can even drag music files into photo or video containers, thereby creating musical soundtracks.

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The New York Times: Google Gets Ready to Rumble With Microsoft - Steve Lohr and Miguel Helft, December 16, 2007

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"The challenge for Microsoft is not the ability to do much of what Google does. Instead, the company faces a business quandary. The Microsoft approach is largely to try to link the Web to its desktop business "software plus Internet services," in its formulation. It will embrace the Web, while striving to maintain the revenue and profits from its desktop software businesses, the corporate gold mine. That is a smart strategy for Microsoft and its shareholders for now, but it may not be sustainable. Assuming that competition heats up, Office may continue to be an outstanding product, but Microsoft may not be able to charge as much for it just as low-cost personal computers eventually undercut the mainframe business, and traditional publishing and media companies have grappled with Internet distribution. The traditional products remain popular, but they become much less profitable.

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"Google faces its own set of challenges: competition from Microsoft and from Web-based productivity software being offered by start-ups like Zoho and Transmedia (Glide OS) as well as more established players like Yahoo."

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Chief Product Officer: Donald Leka

Glide OS, Jumptuit