Monday, November 16, 2009

Chrome OS: the operating system this week

This summer, Google has announced that it hung in his face long ago revealing the imminent arrival of an operating system on its label. Necessarily oriented site with a lot of interaction between the browser Google Chrome the OS open source and free with the base Linux is destined primarily for netbooks, and is distinct from Android. Supported architectures are x86 and ARM, which has so far been neglected by Windows 7.

Chrome for OS, Google has left some information filtered by evoking an OS that starts quickly and allows the user to immediately find yourself in a Web browser where they can have access to all data that have been synchronized. Third-party developers will likely be put to use with features that can be designed based on current Web technologies.

Google has announced a new windowing system on top of a kernel for an OS easy to configure, works with all the hardware and allows to update all software.

Chrome OS must be officially launched at the horizon of the second half of 2010 through OEM partnerships. The team in charge of its development work with several companies, including Acer, ASUS, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, Toshiba, for one imagines the integration into notebooks. Other companies were also cited the example of Freescale and Texas Instruments for compatibility with the chipset, or Qualcomm who work in components for mobile phones. Another name mentioned with Adobe, which provides the runtime platform for deploying AIR applications RIA on the desktop.

Since the announcement of Google screenshots more or less fanciful Chrome OS have been circulating on the Internet. These publications it is difficult to understand the benefits are promised to quit as soon as information TechCrunch, Google has unveiled its famous OS later this week by making available a version for download. Probably a trial version. For TechCrunch, the greatest challenge that faces that Google will offer a large enough range of hardware drivers.

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