In an interesting piece of soothsaying, Jason Calacanis, the “formerly” man par excellence, predicts that Google will release not only a cheap PC in 2007, but also an operating system.

“He [Eric Schmidt, Google’s CEO] also told me they would never do a OS or a PC. Well, Dell is bundling Google apps with their PCs now, and I predict that in 2007 Google will release an Operating System and a super discount PC. Think, a $300-400 PC all-in-on unit that is sold at cost in order to make money off of their services.”

In a further chilling message for Microsoft, he says, “The next upgrade cycle for Office is dead in the water thanks to the Google Office suite.”

Scary.

And here’s Google’s contribution to the festive mood in another take on its famous logo.

No mention of Christmas, though. Just festive holidays and season’s greetings etc.

It’s a pity the West can’t be itself nowadays.

Google has been honouring a variety of well-known painters by redoing their famous logo in the styles of :

Graphics from Art NYC.