Apple has released the following statement: “We are deeply saddened by the tragedy at Foxconn’s plant in Chengdu, and our hearts go out to the victims and their families… We are working closely with Foxconn to understand what caused this terrible event.” The cause of the explosion may have been a lightning strike reported by several witnesses, which led to an explosion in the A05 building, which contained an iPad 2 assembly line. Foxconn has previously been under scrutiny from the press when workers started committing suicides.

No one has even dared to launch an operating system for one of two reasons, the first being that they are very complex to program and build and the second is that no one could really compete with the billions of dollars and partnerships that Microsoft has created over numerous years.

But things could now be changing, because as we know there is another billion dollar company around the corner and that is Google. Google have indicated that they will be creating a new operating system for PC’s. They went on to say that by mid 2010 the operating system could be on sale to the vast majority of people.

Google have said that they are going back to basics with their operating systems stating that, “We’re designing the OS to be fast and lightweight, to start up and get you on to the web in a few seconds,” said the blog post written by Sundar Pichai, vice-president of product management, and Google’s engineering director Linus Upson.

Google have also indicated that operating systems have never really been designed to be used for the internet, so now they will make internet access and web based programs faster and easier to use then ever before.

I personally feel that Microsoft could be getting a bit scared, we already know that Google are one of the largest companies in the world, they also have a huge amount of web based applications. They are going to be creating this operating system from scratch, so they will be able to structure it around the current way in which users use computers. Google want to bring everything online and allow people to access their documents and work from any computer, for so long people have relied on their hard drives which then crash and make you lose everything. Google will be making everything and anything web based, which will also ultimately help their search engine in the future.

This will be one battle that a lot of tech guru’s simply will not want to miss, there may be room for only one operating system.

It‘s the same console just dipped in a bucket of red paint and packaged with some Goodies, but Microsoft will still see a huge result in sales with Pre-Orders alone. The price should be around $300.

The Package includes:
• The Red Xbox 360 Elite
• Matching Limited Edition red wireless 360 controller
• Resident Evil 5
• Black Xbox360 head set
• Exclusive premium “Resident Evil 5” theme (downloadable Via Xbox Live)
Great! Now the Red Ring of Death will fit right in to the ambiance of the Xbox 360