Sundar Pichai, vice president of product development at Google, begins by returning to the path of the Google browser Chrome introduced in September 2008. It states: "Google Chrome is the foundation of everything we do here" before adding: "40 million people use Chrome as a primary browser on their machines. Thanks to its JavaScript engine Chrome is 39 times faster than Internet Explorer. The Mac version is still under development and will be published soon, same thing with regard Chrome for Linux, which is also the main foundation for Chrome OS.
Like the browser, Chrome OS is based on three ideas: speed, simplicity and security. Note and all applications in OS will Chrome web applications. "He 'is not necessary to install anything, this is a browser change," Mr Pichai said. Since these online services all data is hosted remotely, support for the HTML5 for its share of operations caching. In case of loss of the netbook user should be able to buy another machine, identify and instantly find all their favorite applications which are listed in a special page configurable by the user.
Once opened, the application will be placed in a dedicated tab but can also be lodged in a small panel at the bottom right of the screen. In this sense, Google takes the idea of the chat module or task list implemented in Gmail. Mr Pichai said that developers have built a virtual office, ie the ability to have multiple main windows and then lists a number of open tabs.
When the user connects a digital camera, the system opens a small window listing the images, which can then be placed in different tabs. Google also admits that the suite of hosted Microsoft is particularly efficient for this reason, if the user receives via email a file in Excel, it opens in Office Online. If that fails, the system would be capable of throwing itself a self-repair.
Note however that the operating system is compatible with the netbook with an SSD memory. Furthermore it is not possible to install OS Chrome on an existing machine, the user should first invest in a netbook OS on which Chrome is pre-installed. The firm in Mountain View is currently in discussion with various partners to support a greater number of network adapters.
For industry, the challenge of an OS made in Google seems a foregone conclusion. Indeed, a few days after the announcement of Chrome OS Sundar Pichai, vice president of product development at Google, explained that the Mountain View company had already signed several distribution partnerships with various OEM manufacturers. Among them we find Acer, Adobe, ASUS, Freescale, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments and Toshiba. By the end of the first machines with Chrome OS should see the day, "just before Christmas," said Sundar Pichai.
The general enthusiasm is also not to please everyone, starting with some other Linux vendors. Thus Mandriva had responded directly to the announcement of Google in a statement recalling that the company is a "leading European publishers of open source distributions. (S) latest Mandriva Linux 2009 Spring goes beyond the requirements of current users of netbooks (...) and adapts to all individuals and businesses. ". When questioned by us on this, Anne Nicolas Vice President of Engineering at Red Hat, explained: "They can get their technology simply communicating. They have many popular products. It has to occupy the field and react. "
Google has also released the source code of Chrome OS to developers on the official website of Chromium.
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Hardware
It was also announced that Chrome OS would use only solid state memory.
As expected, not all news on the hardware front is good. Largely because all the focus is on software for now. To get it working, you will have to buy a new machine.
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