Yesterday, Google has announced it officially that they will have their Operating System. Google has been competing Microsoft in many ways for quite long now. Google has started various projects over the years including Documents, Mobile, Search Engine and now the Operating System.

This shows that battle between Google and Microsoft is not new. Considering this, Ben Parr from mashable has performed some comparisons between Google and Microsoft, let’s have a look at a few highlights:

1. Google Search Vs Bing Search

Google: Google’s Search Engine is right now the most popular thing on web and has a page rank of 9 plus. There is no other search as popular as Google.

Microsoft: Microsoft earlier had Live search, which nobody really liked except Microsoft. But not long time back they brought the new cool “Bing” search engine. This so far has gone quite well and has made Google notice it.

Result: Google still wins from miles in search engine race.

2. Web Browser, Internet

Microsoft: Microsoft’s Internet Explorer is running from ages. 90% of web users still use it. Its heavy and bugs are always easily noticeable. A majority of knowledgeable developer’s worldwide agrees that if people stop using Internet Explorer. Big revolutions can immediately be brought to web browsers. Personally using Internet Explorer sometimes reminds me of old ages in this very fast world

Google: Google’s Chrome is fast, live and growing every day. Google’s OS is also being said to as light as Google Chrome. This browser still misses some important features but Google believes to have a reason for that and will keep adding more taste to it.

Result: Google are ahead now in terms of technology, popularity makes IE win

3. E-mail and IM

Google: Gmail is Google’s best tool as far as instant email communication is concerned. Now with addition of Google Wave it is supposed to be much stronger. It is fast and brought revolution to communications worldwide. GTalk is also very light and is spreading fast.

Microsoft: While Microsoft still has the big picture they have the leading email communication service Hotmail, and the still most used IM “Windows Live Messenger”. So, Google still needs to go a long way to compete Microsoft here. Microsoft has also got the most widely used Ms Outlook Express with a lot of good features.

Result: Microsoft is still very ahead.

4. Operating System

Here comes the big fish now.

Microsoft: Most dominant since the arrival of Windows platform. They generate $60+ billion of their revenue each year from their Operating Systems. Microsoft has brought quite many fantastic GUI platforms to their users.

Google: Google so far has announced arrival of their Web OS. But it’s still to find out what would be so special and challenging in it for Microsoft’s Windows Operating Systems. Being open source for this operating system can be a big advantage over Microsoft in future.

Result: Microsoft is still big winner.

Microsoft vs. Everyone

These were the few main highlights discussed above but Google still have a long way to go, because Microsoft still has everything everyone needs today. Here is a small comparison of some of the other features Microsoft and everyone is providing:

5. Windows Live vs. Facebook

6. Microsoft Office vs. Open Office

7. Microsoft Expression vs. Adobe CS

8. Microsoft Silverlight vs. Adobe Flash Player

9. Microsoft Live Calendar vs. Google Calendar

10. Windows Live Translator vs. Google Traductor

11. Winows Live Mail (Feed, also in Outlook Express) vs. Google Reader

12. Windows Live WorkSpace vs. Google Docs

13. Windows Live Maps vs. Google Maps

14. Microsoft Virtual Earth vs. Google Earth

15. Windows Live Spaces vs. WordPress

16. Zune vs. iPod

17. Zune Software vs. iTunes

18. MSN SoapBox Video vs. Youtube

19. Microsoft Encarta vs. Wikipedia

20. XBOX 360 vs. PS3

21. WorldWide Telescope vs. Google Sky

and the list keeps going. If anyone really wants to battle Microsoft, they have a very long way to go.

Finally Google did it!!! According to Google’s official blog today, there new operating system “Google Chrome OS” will be released in the 2nd half of 2010. Of course as expected, this operating system will be Open source and available later this year.

Earlier this year Microsoft were bringing “Bing” live and were doing good so far. But now Google has really entered into the software giant’s house. This operating system would be as light as Google Chrome is. This OS is said to be for those who live their lives on web.

So far Google didn’t disclose a lot about their new big thing but we will be bringing you as much as info we can.

An Italian cartoonist, Federico Fieni has portrayed really a cool cartoon showing battle between Google and Microsoft, have a look at this:

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Mashable’s Ben Parr has an interesting writeup on Google Wave, a new application unvieled at the second day of Google I/O conference and scheduled for release “later this year.”

Since its launch Google wave has become the developer’s dream.  The concept behind Google Wave is to “merge” all communications on the web at a single place. It can be you chatting your friends, writing emails, IM and various other software. The special ability to display the hybrid sequence of communication makes it more interesting. Google wave shows these conversations live in your browsers: you will see your friends type character-by-character. You can even disable the option to let others know you are typing something and suprise them with your instant messages

Google wave is created by two of the guys who were also behind Google Maps, with a small team in Sydney.

Features don’t stop here, Google wave also lets users drag attachments from your desktop into Google Wave. It loads that file and sends it immendiately to anyone in the conversation or even in emails. It also lets you embeds any attachments and conversations into any blog just by drag n drop. So, its multi-tasking features are HIGH!

Google Wave will be launched later this year and right now its only available to selected group of developers, who will be able to create their own wave servers. Its also an open-source project with a lot of API integrations, so developers can make a lot of user-driven innovations and extensions for the platform.

What happens when you do a search that doesn’t have branding. Are you swayed by the branding of your favourite search engines? Take the Blind Search Engine Test.

Michael Kordahi, which I feel compelled to disclose is a Microsoft employee, has set up such an experiment, dubbed “BlindSearch” which you can try here.

On the site, you enter a single search query which results three sets of unbranded results. After viewing the results, you are given an option to vote on one set of results, which then reveals the provider and adds it to the tally.

On the site, you enter a single search query which results three sets of unbranded results. After viewing the results, you are given an option to vote on one set of results, which then reveals the provider and adds it to the tally. I searched for The Windows Club and voted for what I felt were the best results.

At the time of writing, Google was leading at 40%, followed by Bing at 38% & Yahoo at 22%.