This would technically be the most barebones operating system ever implemented as according to them it has the ability to run nothing other than a browser.
I’d also like to see how they’re going to overcome boot delays without revolutionizing IC technology. If your operating system is totally stripped down, it will boot faster, but it’s still going to take time.
Google isn’t taking aim at Microsoft or Apple. They’re taking aim at taking the Netbook theory one step further. Those companies who actually develop functional operating systems aren’t going to worry.
Bing is a better search engine...google will have its hands full!
I’d make the switch from Firefox, but I can’t be bothered swapping all the bookmarks and stuff.
Firefox has been good. I’ll stick with it.
cites? sights? sites?
Barely? Google has a great search engine, but this is probably out of their area of exertise. The main reason they are targeting netbooks is they can't possible support the range of HW that MS supports (or the range that linux supports for that matter). But even with this low hanging fruit it will be hard to pull off.
OTOH, my netbook came with Xp home which I immediately scrapped. MS isn't a perfect fit for the netbook segment either.
I call BS right here.
“Already, over 30 million people use it (Chrome) regularly.”
If these 30 million people are anything like me, we’ve downloaded it, played with it a bit, and resumed using Firefox like before.
I mean I’m sure there are *some* people who use it regularly, but I highly doubt it’s anything close to what they say.
No thank you, give me a 64 bit OS and privacy.
A bootable web browser isn’t going to unseat Microsoft just yet.
I apologize, in advance, for not being very diplomatic. That said, Google can kiss my Firefox’s butt.
“Things”, being what they are these days, I’ll stick to Firefox and OffByOne.
10-4?
Free browser wars
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That's definitely a hit at Windows.
I’d like to see Google satellite maps feed into a Google photo-realistic flight simulator, where the 3-D computation is done on centralized high end supercomputers with only the final video frames downloaded. Home computers typically only need supercomputer class computation for short periods, the rest of the time spent web surfing. It doesn’t make sense to buy an expensive high-end home computer that will be second rate in a year.
As long as Google doesn’t bundle Chrome with the O/S. That would be an anti-trust violation and unfair.
‘in their sites’? websites or buildings? do not understand.
I mean think about it: why would you want an OS that is very tied to Google itself and won't have the full hardware driver support that MacOS X 10.6 and Windows Vista/7 enjoys?