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Google Announces Chrome OS, For Release Mid-2010

Posted by timothy on from the bring-on-the-shiny dept.

Zaiff Urgulbunger writes "After years of speculation, Google has announced Google Chrome OS, which should be available mid-2010. Initially targeting netbooks, its main selling points are speed, simplicity and security — which kind of implies that the current No.1 OS doesn't deliver in these areas! The Chrome OS will run on both x86 and ARM architectures, uses a Linux kernel with a new windowing system. According to Google, '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 says that this new OS is separate from Android, as the latter was designed for mobile phones and set-top boxes, whereas Chrome OS is designed 'for people who spend most of their time on the web.'" The New York Times' coverage is worth reading, and there are stories popping up all over the web.

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  1. Uh huh. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    That's GNU/Chrome, thanks.

    1. Re:Uh huh. by Raumkraut · · Score: 4, Funny

      But that's okay, because it'll be a beta.

  2. Hold on a sec... by mc+moss · · Score: 5, Funny

    Buying stocks in companies that make chairs.

    1. Re:Hold on a sec... by L4t3r4lu5 · · Score: 4, Funny

      Beat you to it. I bought stock in the company which affixes pub furniture to the ground.

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  3. Chrome is the new Emacs? by deadbeefcafe · · Score: 5, Funny

    Chrome is a nice operating system, but it could do with a decent web browser.

  4. Should be an easier platform to write for by tjstork · · Score: 4, Funny

    I wonder if Google will allow native development on Chrome OS? It should be easier to write for than Linux itself is. First off, they have their own windowing system, and that probably means they have done something with sound as well. I wonder if the windowing system is based on a drawing stack that is hardware accelerated? I wonder if you will be able to print?

    I really hope they don't force you into writing in Java for it.

    And I wonder if they will offer Chrome OS as a VM type of solution that you can buy for Windows?

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  5. Re:"its main selling points"... by CountBrass · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's main selling points are speed, simplicity, security and an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope.

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  6. Re:The web is NOT the OS by bgarcia · · Score: 5, Funny

    You forgot to tell us to "get off your lawn".

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  7. Does this mean by Moabz · · Score: 5, Funny

    2010 is finally the year of the linux desktop ?

  8. Re:Yawn, another distro? by Xtravar · · Score: 4, Funny

    I'm feeling lucky.

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