Chrome OS, when announced took over the web with a storm and it’s model appeased the needs of the techie people, who were searching for some fresh computing technologies.
The whole cloud thingy, it looks real neat and the news is that Acer will be displaying it up, running on it’s netbook at Computex Taipei show from June 1 to June 5. The OS isn’t ready to hit the markets as yet and launch is far away now. Well, Acer has plans for having netbooks running on Android OS too and both the OS’s come from the same maker, Google.
Most intriguing thing right up is the netbook sandwich of Android OS and Chrome OS. We’ve heard from multiple manufacturers, they’ve been fearing up to launch netbooks with ARM and nVidia Tegra 2 processors and will feature Android and Chrome OS. What is Google’s plan? Have it’s own products compete with each other or merge them in future?
Google Had announced that it would be releasing a OS version of it’s browser Chrome in July. The Press event yesterday gave us a lot of more information as to what was going on, what were the key features and so on.
Key Features
Clouds
With Clouds i don’t mean actual clouds, but these are where all your data on Google Chrome OS Data will be stored. Well, nothing is on your computer so you can surely expect better speed and also the data is easily accessible from all of your devices so that you do not need to Shift it from one device to another.
Speed
Chrome was the fastest browser and one of the reasons why it was so because of it’s fastest loading Javascript Load Engine. You can expect the same thing from the Chrome OS which currently takes 7 seconds to start up and this is also going to be reduced as the development further progresses. Your Desktop Environment is also going to speed up because all of it apps are going to be web apps so compared to existing computers, it is damn fast, you get it?
All Things Web
Chrome OS would mark the beginning of the new era, the web era where all your content is on the web. You don’t need to start any Softwares or such to start working on your computer. Everything is just web. All applications are web apps so you don’t need to install or update them as so.
SpreadSheets on Chrome OS
The Ultimate User Experience
The Graphical User Interface is going to be the same as the chrome browser, the easiest to use but the capabilites just increase 10 fold. Games, Videos everything can be done on the relatively simple interface.
Updating
Last Year Google Chrome was updated over twenty times without even letting their 40 Million Users know about it. How is that? Well, same is going to be in the Chrome OS where the updates will be on air updates. So users don’t ever need to search for updates, download them and install it manually. Everything will be automagical.
Security
With Google Chrome OS new Security as all your data will be Encrypted and will be stored on the Cloud. So significantly all your Data Loss Risks and Data theft risks are reduced. No Antivirus needed!
Second, because all apps live within the browser, there are significant benefits to security. Unlike traditional operating systems, Chrome OS doesn’t trust the applications you run. Each app is contained within a security sandbox making it harder for malware and viruses to infect your computer. Furthermore, Chrome OS barely trusts itself. Every time you restart your computer the operating system verifies the integrity of its code. If your system has been compromised, it is designed to fix itself with a reboot. While no computer can be made completely secure, we’re going to make life much harder (and less profitable) for the bad guys. If you dig security, read the Chrome OS Security Overview. Via Their Blog.
Open Source
This was much expected from Google who made Chrome OS an Open Source project and the source code is available here. Open Source Means you can expect more from developers world wide.
The Chrome OS is more concentrated on the NetBooks market because it wants to target the potential of that market which is growing speedily.
The whole Chrome OS concept is completely opposite to what we use today.
Today : Browser in Operating System
Tomorrow : Operating System in Browser (+1 from Google)
The Chrome OS is going to be absolutely free and consumers can expect it next year around November-December.
Chrome OS, when announced took over the web with a storm and it’s model appeased the needs of the techie people, who were searching for some fresh computing technologies.
