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All Your Files May Live in the Cloud Soon

Most people can’t really envision having a computer without Internet connectivity. Go offline and your system will feel severely crippled. In fact, the trend, at least as Google would have you believe, is to move everything online replacing local applications with web apps and even eliminating the need for loca...

14 June 2010
09:55 GMT

Google Chrome OS to Be Able to Run ‘Remote’ Native Apps

Google has bold plans for Chrome OS: it wants to build an operating system that relies solely on web applications. This strict requirement means that the only native app in Chrome OS is the Chrome browser itself. Even things like printing will be handled in the cloud. Still, there are plenty of desktop apps today tha...

12 June 2010
07:46 GMT

More Details on Google Cloud Print for Chrome OS

Google Chrome OS has set itself quite a hard-to-reach goal, namely to make everything a web app. Google has said from the beginning that there will be no native applications for Chrome OS except the Chrome browser itself. While web apps today are capable of amazing things, nobody, not even everyone at Google, believe...

8 June 2010
05:54 GMT

Acer to Show Off Google Chrome OS Devices in Two Weeks

An interesting piece of news has been making the rounds lately, saying that Acer is planning to launch Google Chrome OS devices in a couple of weeks, at the 2010 Computex Taipei show, running from June 1 to June 5. The report on Venture Beat is a little light on details, but would seem to indicate that netbooks or ot...

14 May 2010
04:26 GMT

Cloud Printing Coming to Google Chrome OS and Mobile Phones

When Google first showed off Chrome OS, it made a simple but bold pledge, it would not run any native app, at all. The browser is the only native application that the user will have access to, everything else is in the cloud. It sounds like an enticing option, but many pointed out that the market was not yet ready fo...

16 April 2010
05:15 GMT

Jolicloud 0.9 Robby Pre-Final Brings the 'Cloud' Closer

The makers of Jolicloud have been on a roll lately. Jolicloud is a Linux distribution based on Ubuntu aimed at netbooks. It lays a great emphasis on cloud apps and many believe it to be a true competitor to Google Chrome OS. Several big updates have arrived in the span of just a few days so the team believs the OS is...

30 March 2010
04:59 GMT

Google Chrome OS Coming to Tablet Devices (Pics)

With the completely 'unexpected' launch of the Apple iPad, there was some hope that things would quiet down on the tablet front. If anything, just the opposite happened, even more people started to talk about it, every other news story was either about the iPad or inserted some reference to it regardless o...

2 February 2010
09:45 GMT

Multitouch in Chrome OS? Maybe, But Don't Hold Your Breath

The hype around Google Chrome OS has died down a bit now that Google unveiled its first operating system (not accounting for Android on the mobile front). Scheduled to debut in time for holiday season 2010, Google still has a lot of work ahead of it and, while we have a general idea of what the company has envisione...

30 January 2010
05:36 GMT

Windows 8 - Next Wave of Growth and New Challenges for Microsoft

Moving onward after the successful delivery of Windows 7, Microsoft is concerned not only with putting together the lines of code that will end up as Windows 8, but also with the evolution of the Windows brand. While the company continues to be largely mum on Windows 7’s successor, and for good reason since Win...

30 December 2009
23:11 GMT

Stick with Windows 7/Windows 8, No Chrome OS for You

Holding your breath for the Windows killer from Google? Maybe it will be a good idea to exhale, if you haven’t done so sooner this year, when the Mountain View-based search giant unveiled Chromium OS. As more and more Google Chrome OS details are released to the public, it is becoming increasingly clear that Go...

14 December 2009
03:17 GMT

Google Chrome OS: The User Interface

Google has just revealed its most ambitious undertaking to date, Chrome OS, a new operating system which intends to push the concept in a new direction by moving everything to the cloud. While this game-changing approach is very exciting and raises a lot of questions about the future of operating systems, the web an...

20 November 2009
05:50 GMT

Google Chrome OS vs. Windows, and So It Begins

Inevitable, the advent of a new operating system has to be branded with certain coordinates that position the platform in relation to the ubiquitous Windows OS from Microsoft. Google Chrome OS has in this manner joined the club of non-Windows operating systems, and don’t think for a minute that this does not ap...

20 November 2009
04:00 GMT

Move Over Microsoft, Google Chrome OS Is Here

Google has just unveiled its hugely anticipated, web-based operating system, Google Chrome OS. As expected, Google hasn't actually launched the operating system, but it has released the source code in its current state for developers to have a chance to start working on it. From now on, the code will remain open...

19 November 2009
15:08 GMT

Google Chrome OS Will Be Revealed Tomorrow

The wait for Google Chrome OS is almost over as the company is getting ready to reveal the upcoming operating system in an event tomorrow at Googleplex, the company's headquarters. It's unclear whether Google will release any actual code or a rough, working version, but there will definitely be plenty of d...

18 November 2009
08:51 GMT

Google Chrome OS to Be Launched Next Week

Google's most hotly anticipated project, the brand-new, web-based operating system Chrome OS, is about to become a reality if rumors about its impending launch as soon as next week turn out to be true. When it first announced the project, Google said that the first public release should come this fall so this w...

13 November 2009
06:42 GMT

Google Chrome OS Browser Leaked and Available for Download

Google Chrome OS joins the likes of Microsoft’s Windows 7 and Apple’s Mac OS X Snow Leopard when it comes down to operating system development projects that make it into the wild from various sources except the companies actually building the platforms. Bits from an early development milestone of the Goog...

15 October 2009
03:21 GMT

It Will Be Windows 7 SP1 to Go Against Google Chrome OS

In the second half of 2010 Microsoft’s client operating system will have a new rival platform hungry for a piece of its market share. The Linux-based Google Chrome OS will be generally available to customers worldwide in H2 2010, and it will fall not on Windows 7 RTM, but on Windows 7 Service Pack 1 to neutrali...

16 September 2009
12:01 GMT

Leaked Google Chrome OS Private Beta Screenshots Are Fake

Just a day after Google confirmed that it was cooking its own breed of open source operating system, the first screenshots allegedly depicting Google Chrome Operating System got leaked. The images are included into this article, but they are without any sort of value since they are shameless fakes. The Mountain View-...

9 July 2009
11:52 GMT

Download Google Chrome 3.0.191.3

Google has released an update to the 3.0 version of its own breed of open-source browser through the development channel. In less than a year since it released Chrome 1.0, the search giant managed to take the browser all the way to version 3.0. Of course that only the 2.0 flavor is considered stable, with 3.0 still i...

8 July 2009
11:31 GMT

Windows Killer: Google Chrome OS Drops in 2010

It turns out that all those rumors of an operating system from Google to go against Windows have managed to come true. Having released the Google Chrome browser just nine months ago, it was a natural step in the evolution of the Mountain View-based company to dig and bury itself deeper on the desktop, going beyond pr...

8 July 2009
02:31 GMT

Introducing Google Chrome OS

Rumors about a Google OS have been around for years and they haven't died down completely even after the release of Android, its mobile OS. Well, they aren't rumors anymore; it's official, Google has built an operating system, dubbed Chrome OS, and it's actually pretty close to completion, set to ...

8 July 2009
02:27 GMT


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