Features of Google chrome Operating system

[chuck kottke]

Thanks for the detailed accounting of the new system! I'll do my best to reply within your quoted text below:

 

Google has declared to luanch of it's operating system in 2010 and promised that Chrome OS devices will have the following five goodies:

 

Google has declared to luanch of it's operating system in 2010 and promised that Chrome OS devices will have the following five goodies:

 

1. Speedy boot-up, as fast as three seconds.

A Chrome OS device will not store any applications on the device itself. Nadda, none, zippo, says Pichai. Likewise, it will include only the hardware, right down to the component level, that Google has approved in its hardware reference specification. The only applications it will use are those that can be run from the cloud in a browser, the Chrome browser, to be specific. One of the primary reasons for this is to speed up boot time. With no local applications and limited hardware, the device doesn't need to run through long checklist looking for devices and drivers, loading programs into resident memory and so on. It should turn on like a television, says Pichai. Flip a switch and the within three seconds browser should be available, showing the most recent browser windows.

Makes too much sense. Google is setting a standard for hardware? - that's interesting from a company traditionally into providing the worlds most enormous search engine!

Yes, great - speed that boot up! No more waiting for the "vacuum tubes" to warm up then? I've been wondering when someone would finally do this - question answered! Maybe now it's safe to turn off the computer, since there's no dread of waiting for it all to boot up again. Hey, Google might save us all electricity!

 

2. Security by default.

The portion of the operating system needed to operate the device will reside in a read-only section of memory. The rest of the operating system is integrated with the Chrome browser and, like the browser, security updates require nothing more than a reboot. Chrome OS can run multiple Web applications in multiple tabs and each one is locked down from all others, so a vulnerability in one Web app can't lead to exposure in another. User data stored on the device, which is minimal, is encrypted. User data is limited to items such as user preferences. All other data will be stored in the cloud. User preferences will also be synched to a cloud account, much like any thin client. Should you lose the device, you would merely log in from another one and your data and preferences should be there.

 

So this is definitely a hardware device then! It might cut back on the infections and attacks, since the operating system is ROM only.. Hmm.. But what if we want to use another browser? Sounds a bit Orwellian in that sense! Good deal with the web application security improvements.. User data is encrypted - that's a much needed improvement! But I wonder if the marketing people won't be upset, since they might not be able to so easily track everyone's activities? Ohwello Othello!:laugh3:

 

3. Support for both x86 and ARM architectures.

Google promises that it will be writing native code for both popular netbook CPUs.

 

4. The application menu.

As new Web applications come online tweaked for Chrome OS, Chrome OS will showcase them on a permanent tab it now calls the application menu. This will help users find new applications. Developers with new apps will find this an easier method to showcase them, too. Any Web application that runs in a standards compliant browser should work on a Chrome OS device. But Chrome OS is focused on supporting new protocols such as HTML 5, which, among other improvements, natively supports rich media.

So we will be updated with new Web applications if we choose the Chrome Operating System - that does sound nice! Standards Compliant web browser - will Firefox still be compliant?!:stunned: I hope so! But it's good to know that Google isn't just making a device to try and obsolete all other makers.. (right?). Sounds like I'll be needing a new computer perhaps - wish we wouldn't obsolete machines so fast - it's hard on the environment (and the wallet.). Still, it sounds like some better hypertext media links then can be viewed, which use and support their own rich media..

 

5. A surprising way to support Microsoft Office.

If you ask a Google executive any question involving Microsoft, you'll hear the cliche answer -- that they company thinks only of users and not of potential competitors. But in one of the giggle-inducing moments of Thursday's demo, Pichai, showed how Chrome OS would handle Office documents -- via Microsoft Office Live, the free Web app version of Office available to Windows Live users. If a user clicks on an .xls document, Chrome launches Excel via the browser in Office Live. "Microsoft launched a killer app for Chrome OS . . . and is working very hard to do that," he quipped.

hmm..

[Black Rose]

Google is talking over the world!

[chuck kottke]

Anti-trust laws might break them up (I would hope!). At least before we all get Google-ized! I can see it now, "One Globe, Under Google, with Searches and Servers for all!":P

[Cobalt]

And I wonder, will Google try and collect information to "try and improve their services" if you opt in as what happened in that keylogger drama over the browser? Hmmm?

 

Google has declared to luanch of it's operating system in 2010 and promised that Chrome OS devices will have the following five goodies:

 

 

1. Speedy boot-up, as fast as three seconds.

A Chrome OS device will not store any applications on the device itself. Nadda, none, zippo, says Pichai. Likewise, it will include only the hardware, right down to the component level, that Google has approved in its hardware reference specification. The only applications it will use are those that can be run from the cloud in a browser, the Chrome browser, to be specific. One of the primary reasons for this is to speed up boot time. With no local applications and limited hardware, the device doesn't need to run through long checklist looking for devices and drivers, loading programs into resident memory and so on. It should turn on like a television, says Pichai. Flip a switch and the within three seconds browser should be available, showing the most recent browser windows.

 

So... you can't have any applications on it, only ones that work with the Chrome browser? Will you be able to use OTHER browsers?

 

I don't see the need for an OS simply to support a browser... so I'm confused with this one. I need to see pics about how this will work. So far, it seems like an OS for people who use the internet and nothing else.

[Black Rose]

And I wonder, will Google try and collect information to "try and improve their services" if you opt in as what happened in that keylogger drama over the browser? Hmmm?

 

 

 

So... you can't have any applications on it, only ones that work with the Chrome browser? Will you be able to use OTHER browsers?

 

I don't see the need for an OS simply to support a browser... so I'm confused with this one. I need to see pics about how this will work. So far, it seems like an OS for people who use the internet and nothing else.

 

It's more for Cloud computing where you have a computer box with nothing on it, and use programs stored on remote servers, like office live, google docs etc.

[Aleluvscp]

I'm so glad this is coming out. I could not hate Microsoft more :lol:

[Buxus vahlii]

I hate google chrome!:veryangry2: