Pixel Picture Clearer? Google Ports Office-Substitute To Chrome OS, Browser

Posted by Soulskill on Tuesday February 26, 2013 @03:10PM from the suite-port,-man dept.

CWmike writes "Google confirmed on Tuesday that it has ported part of QuickOffice to a technology baked into Chrome OS and the company's Chrome browser. The popular iOS and Android app substitute for Microsoft Office that Google acquired last year will run using 'Native Client,' a technology that lets developers turn applications written in C and C++ — originally intended to run in, say, Windows. With that it will execute entirely within a browser, specifically Google's own Chrome. Google claims that Native Client code runs almost as fast inside the browser as the original did outside. QuickOffice viewers come bundled with the $1,300 Chrome OS-based Chromebook Pixel notebook, and Google will add editing functionality in the next two to three months. Does this all make the Pixel make more sense?"

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Re:Translation by Anonymous Coward · 2013-02-26 15:49 · Score: 0, Troll

it will make Chrome OS more usable outside of a dumb terminal for the cloud.
Yeah and if I spray perfume on a dog turd it's slightly less stinky. Yet it still smells like shit.