Does Google Have a Secret OS?

[Franklin]

One-third, however, were unrecognized even though Net Applications' sensors can detect all major operating systems including most flavors of Unix and Linux. Even Microsoft's new Windows 7, which is deployed internally at Microsoft headquarters, would show up by its identifier string. But the Google operating systems were specifically blocked.

"We have never seen an OS stripped off the user agent string before," Vizzaccaro told InternetNews.com. "I believe you have to arrange to have that happen, it's not something we've seen before with a proxy server. All I can tell you is there's a good percentage of the people at Google showing up [at Web pages] with their OS hidden."

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gOS Cloud maybe? (-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wI6Tr0Tz5U-)

[Kerodo]

I'm sure something is coming sooner or later, just a matter of time. What it will be and/or how good, is anyone's guess...

[lodore]

Dono but its something reliable.
ranks in the top 3 for uptime at netcraft.
its gotta be unix based.

just because no one has hidden the OS type of a server before doesnt mean its not easy to do.
maybe they just changed the string to GWS just to prentend they have a better platform than anyone else?

[farmerlee]

Probably referring to android, google's new smartphone OS.

[desinet1]

Google is surely working on an OS. Let's see when it gets revealed.