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Chrome OS Introduces Aura Window Manager

Posted by Soulskill on from the they've-innovated-through-to-the-other-side dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Don't look now, but Google has officially revealed their intentions to go after Windows and OS X. Chrome OS 19 has arrived for Samsung Series 5 and Acer AC700 Chromebooks running the developer channel, and the changes it brings may shock you. The new Aura window manager has landed, bringing with it a number of features that you'd expect from a traditional OS. For starters, there’s the Shelf along the bottom of the screen. It’s set to hide when you’ve got a browser window maximized by default, but you can choose to have it always on top or auto-hide, too, just like the Windows taskbar or OS X dock."

2 of 162 comments (clear)

  1. About Aura by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here's the relevant info about Aura.

  2. Re:ChromeOS different to Android 4.0? by larry+bagina · · Score: 2, Informative

    Chrome is linux running a web browser and nothing but a web browser. Android is linux with a bastard java stack that can run arbitrary applications.

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