Google to develop new OS?

" Rumors that Google plans to encroach on the desktop turf of Microsoft flittered around the Internet on Tuesday.

Apparently, the chatter sprang from a Jan. 20 Financial Times story, which reported that Google was working on switching its in-house computers over to the Linux operating system. According to the story, Google is developing its own version of Ubuntu, the software suite developed by tech entrepreneur Mark Shuttleworth.

That in of itself is no big deal. Scores of companies have swapped Microsoft for Linux ... "