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Okay, I know that this has been beat to a pulp out there, but I
wanted to give a little more global view of this.  Most people
have read that Mark Lucovsky
has moved to Google recently and there is a lot of speculation about
what he’s working on, a hailstorm clone and a Google OS are the
obvious choices since that is what he specialized in at Microsoft.

Some people are not so sure that this is whats going on.  However, if you recall other people that Google has hired in the past year:

Joe Beda, a MS developer working on their new graphics engine, Avalon, and, more interesting, Adam Bosworth,
formally of Microsoft and BEA.  Bosworth was the leader of MS’s
XML strategy and a kind of pioneer of web services.  In his blog post about moving
to Google Adam talks about how he is excited to work on services that
millions of people will use.  Since he went to Google, they
haven’t really released anything ground-breaking, GMail was already out
there, which was their last major release IMO.

These hires, and the fact that Google hasn’t had, IMO, a major
release of any new service, leads me to believe that they are working
on something pretty special, special enough to lure all these people
away from their otherwise successfull careers, these are the type of
people that don’t interview for jobs, instead they interview the
company that is trying to hire them.

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