Google announces multi-platform Chrome OS, shipping in late 2010
Whoa. After long periods of speculation, Google enters the operating system space, for reals.
Chrome OS will be "fast and lightweight, to start up and get you onto the web in a few seconds." Targeted at Netbooks, Chrome OS will be available on new systems by the second half of 2010. "The user interface is minimal to stay out of your way, and most of the user experience takes place on the web", according to the Official Google blog.
And, lest you think "Chrome OS" to just be fancy rebranding of Google's Android mobile OS, Google's VP of Product Management makes it abundantly clear in the release, "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."
Corporate espionage being what it is these days, there have likely been some sleepless nights around Redmond recently. With the full faith and credit of Google behind a radically new "cloud" OS -- relieving users of tedious things like backing up files, or installing applications -- Microsoft's quest to tie up the netbook market, without allowing it to compete for the low end of desktops, could face significant challenges in the years ahead.
Chrome OS will be "fast and lightweight, to start up and get you onto the web in a few seconds." Targeted at Netbooks, Chrome OS will be available on new systems by the second half of 2010. "The user interface is minimal to stay out of your way, and most of the user experience takes place on the web", according to the Official Google blog.
And, lest you think "Chrome OS" to just be fancy rebranding of Google's Android mobile OS, Google's VP of Product Management makes it abundantly clear in the release, "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."
Corporate espionage being what it is these days, there have likely been some sleepless nights around Redmond recently. With the full faith and credit of Google behind a radically new "cloud" OS -- relieving users of tedious things like backing up files, or installing applications -- Microsoft's quest to tie up the netbook market, without allowing it to compete for the low end of desktops, could face significant challenges in the years ahead.
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kojo87 said 2:08AM on 7-08-2009
they best make a 64 bit version. make this run Steam natively and i might replace Windows.
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Gilbert Palau said 2:33AM on 7-08-2009
They'll prolly launch it 1st in Window's hardware... oh wait...
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Dapxin said 3:26AM on 7-08-2009
didnt we hear the same from the Linux evangels ?
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hazard said 6:00AM on 7-08-2009
"Google Chrome OS is being created for people who spend most of their time on the web"
Smart move, keeping it simple and targeting a large and growing demographic. Bring it on :)
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Molly said 6:53AM on 7-08-2009
Time to sink the Redmond Dreadnought. :)
hit Microsoft hard in their arrogance. make them learn the hard way, that fooling people into Mojave (an early in-house code name for Windows Se7en :) is utterly wrong. customers just don't want it. until they come up with something better than Windows XP (better than Vista just isn't good enough, sorry) my money will be on Google.
we'll see how it goes. good luck to you, Google.
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brett said 10:58AM on 7-08-2009
"Mojave (an early in-house code name for Windows Se7en :) "
Do you know anything you're talking about? You should watch the commercial closer.....
FNG said 11:51AM on 7-08-2009
so it's cool to hate on MS because they are the biggest? What if Google becomes the biggest? Do you hate on them next? speaking of hate, people like you get hate from me.
Sanskrit said 9:06AM on 7-08-2009
Not a fanboying, just a thought:
I think this is an overreach on Google's part. For everyone that slams MS, the fact still remains that the grand majority out there still use it. Mac has had time to topple Redmond; hasn't happened. Linux has had time to do the same and you see how well that does.
Besides, I guarantee that if Google does succeed, there's going to be a bunch of people a decade from now whining about how someone "needs to topple Mountain View" for "crimes" real or imagined.
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Molly said 10:03AM on 7-08-2009
don't get my wrong my inherent mistrust of Google is just as big.
and as for Apple, well, they're only still around because it pleases Microsoft to have a competitor hovering around a market share of just above 5%, it keep the anti trust regulators at bay. in fact, if it weren't for Microsoft, Apple would be just a footnote in computer history today.
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sida said 10:17AM on 7-08-2009
ya, windows 7 boots up and gets me online in ~45 seconds. i can wait a bit to get a full OS, thanks
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Anon said 12:54PM on 7-08-2009
Um, not to burst any bubbles, but you really need to read into the post.
"The software architecture is simple — Google Chrome running within a new windowing system on top of a Linux kernel." So it's not going to be as revolutionary as you all hype it up to be, it's just going to be another linux distro.
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Jon said 1:50PM on 7-08-2009
multiplatform? um...if anything, its a new platform, but not really - since its just a new linux distro.
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Grant Robertson said 1:56PM on 7-08-2009
Multi-platform as in both x86 Intel processors and ARM processors. ARM being popular in mobile devices (like the HTC "G1" Dream, which runs Android), and Intel being what's currently popular in netbooks.