Google Chrome OS Promises Computing Without Pain
Before a crowd of reporters and guests, Google provided an update on its forthcoming browser-based operating system, Chrome OS, and invited attendees and select early adopters to try Chrome OS running on an unbranded netbook through a pilot program. Chrome OS aims to be speedy, simple and secure: all the things that the typical PC is not. It achieves these goals by limiting the user to Web apps, running in the Chrome browser. But Google doesn't see this as a limitation; it sees it as a way to pr
It looks a bit like an Apple PowerBook G3 from the late '90s. Keep an eye out for the Samsung model next year.
Sundar Pichai, VP of product management, says that people spend most of their time on the Web these days. For Google, the future is in the cloud. "Cloud computing will essentially define computing as we all know it," said CEO Eric Schmidt. Chrome OS starts in seconds rather than minutes. It features sophisticated sandboxing -- the most secure sandboxing in any consumer operating system, Google claims. It's still missing some necessary features, like offline storage capabilities and printing. But they're coming on the next few months. And when Chrome OS arrives in mid-2011, expect businesses to be interested as well as consumers. To hear Google tell it, corporate IT executives have been inquiring anxiously about the progress of Chrome OS, intrigued by the promise of computers that are less expensive, more manageable, and more secure than traditional desktop computers.
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Approaching the Google Chrome OS launch event. A satellite truck indicates something significant is about to be announced. SEE ALSO:
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Thirty minutes early and there's already a crowd.
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The big question: Will we see an actual Chrome OS netbook?
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Where Chrome fits in the scheme of things.
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A selection of web apps. Stores, it seems, trump search.
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Google's Brian Rakowski talks about Chrome.
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Showing off Chrome's speed when processing complicated graphics.
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It's like the web, except you pay.
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Readers of the New York Times now have more control over how news information is presented to them.
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Another way to view web information.
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Future versions of Chrome will include Popit.
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Shopping, meet HTML5.
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Google says it takes only a minute to set up a Chrome OS machine.
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A few more seconds...
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Businesses will find a lot to like in Chrome OS.
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Google's black box netbook.
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When Schmidt shows up, it's serious.
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He didn't want Google in the browser or operating system business initially.
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The list of participants.
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Linus Upson, Brian Rakowski, Sundar Pichai and Caesar Sengupta
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Linus Upson, Brian Rakowski, Sundar Pichai and Caesar Sengupta
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It looks a bit like an Apple PowerBook G3 from the late '90s. Keep an eye out for the Samsung model next year.
Sundar Pichai, VP of product management, says that people spend most of their time on the Web these days. For Google, the future is in the cloud. "Cloud computing will essentially define computing as we all know it," said CEO Eric Schmidt. Chrome OS starts in seconds rather than minutes. It features sophisticated sandboxing -- the most secure sandboxing in any consumer operating system, Google claims. It's still missing some necessary features, like offline storage capabilities and printing. But they're coming on the next few months. And when Chrome OS arrives in mid-2011, expect businesses to be interested as well as consumers. To hear Google tell it, corporate IT executives have been inquiring anxiously about the progress of Chrome OS, intrigued by the promise of computers that are less expensive, more manageable, and more secure than traditional desktop computers.
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