Google Chrome Os Coming In 2010


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It's been an exciting nine months since we launched the Google Chrome browser. Already, over 30 million people use it regularly. We designed Google Chrome for people who live on the web — searching for information, checking email, catching up on the news, shopping or just staying in touch with friends. However, the operating systems that browsers run on were designed in an era where there was no web. So today, we're announcing a new project that's a natural extension of Google Chrome — the Google Chrome Operating System. It's our attempt to re-think what operating systems should be.

Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010. Because we're already talking to partners about the project, and we'll soon be working with the open source community, we wanted to share our vision now so everyone understands what we are trying to achieve.

Speed, simplicity and security are the key aspects of Google Chrome OS. We're designing the OS to be fast and lightweight, to start up and get you onto the web in a few seconds. The user interface is minimal to stay out of your way, and most of the user experience takes place on the web. And as we did for the Google Chrome browser, we are going back to the basics and completely redesigning the underlying security architecture of the OS so that users don't have to deal with viruses, malware and security updates. It should just work.

Google Chrome OS will run on both x86 as well as ARM chips and we are working with multiple OEMs to bring a number of netbooks to market next year. The software architecture is simple — Google Chrome running within a new windowing system on top of a Linux kernel. For application developers, the web is the platform. All web-based applications will automatically work and new applications can be written using your favorite web technologies. And of course, these apps will run not only on Google Chrome OS, but on any standards-based browser on Windows, Mac and Linux thereby giving developers the largest user base of any platform.

Google Chrome OS is a new project, separate from Android. Android was designed from the beginning to work across a variety of devices from phones to set-top boxes to netbooks. Google Chrome OS is being created for people who spend most of their time on the web, and is being designed to power computers ranging from small netbooks to full-size desktop systems. While there are areas where Google Chrome OS and Android overlap, we believe choice will drive innovation for the benefit of everyone, including Google.

We hear a lot from our users and their message is clear — computers need to get better. People want to get to their email instantly, without wasting time waiting for their computers to boot and browsers to start up. They want their computers to always run as fast as when they first bought them. They want their data to be accessible to them wherever they are and not have to worry about losing their computer or forgetting to back up files. Even more importantly, they don't want to spend hours configuring their computers to work with every new piece of hardware, or have to worry about constant software updates. And any time our users have a better computing experience, Google benefits as well by having happier users who are more likely to spend time on the Internet.

We have a lot of work to do, and we're definitely going to need a lot of help from the open source community to accomplish this vision. We're excited for what's to come and we hope you are too. Stay tuned for more updates in the fall and have a great summer.

If Google Chrome OS ends up as good as the Browser. Which I hope it does. And has some Android app compatibility.

Google Chrome OS will be awesome.

hype hype hype
 
Amongst Windows computers that these days boost power and high amounts of function, it'll be good to see a bare-bones operating systems that serve the most common of functions like browsing the web, checking emails, or doing office work, whilst not being vulnerable to viruses.

It'll take time, but I look forward to seeing what Google OS really has to offer, it probably won't be competition for major operating systems any time soon if it lacks real media capabilities like Vista currently offers.
 
It's official: Google wants to dominate the world of computers. And I'm not joking.

It's quite obvious Google Chrome OS is taking the ideas behind Google Chrome to the next level. Google Chrome has always been about bringing web applications closer to the desktop. This is brilliant, because "[all web-based applications] will run not only on Google Chrome OS, but on any standards-based browser on Windows, Mac and Linux thereby giving developers the largest user base of any platform" and us users an easy way to access our data no matter where we are.

My dream for the computer world, my goal in every new service I sign up for, is the following: to be able to log in to any computer in the world and have access to all my applications and data. With Google Chrome OS, my Pandora, and all the appropriate web-based applications, my assumed-impossible dream will actually come true. I will no longer have to rsync. I will no longer have to punch data into multiple locations. I will no longer have to punch holes in my firewall for SSH access to my computer so I can access data. I will have my Pandora to access it all. :D
 
javaJake said:
My dream for the computer world, my goal in every new service I sign up for, is the following: to be able to log in to any computer in the world and have access to all my applications and data. With Google Chrome OS, my Pandora, and all the appropriate web-based applications, my assumed-impossible dream will actually come true. I will no longer have to rsync. I will no longer have to punch data into multiple locations. I will no longer have to punch holes in my firewall for SSH access to my computer so I can access data. I will have my Pandora to access it all. :D
If you have access to your applications and data from anywhere, doesn't everyone else theoretically have that same access? How is this superior in any way to opening an SSH port through your firewall? From a
 
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I wasn't talking about security. This whole thing is about convenience. Security will have to be taken into account, but I don't anticipate security being too big of an issue.

I don't know. Maybe I'm being naive, but I anticipate that, with some HTTPS, encryption on the backend where it counts, and secure programming practices in the code, it'll be fine.
 
Thanks for these 3 goddamn topics about another unnecessary google product! Woooooo!
 
(naw)mcx said:
PoisonedV said:
Thanks for these 3 goddamn topics about another unnecessary google product! Woooooo!
Thanks for this 1 goddamn post about something we already know! Woooooo!
deal w/ it
 
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It's gonna suck more than the Pandora! Although it'll probably be out sooner...
 
I'll give it a shot when it comes out, but since Google is all about "web applications" and "web services" and Javascript, it probably won't do anything good for me.
 
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