Category — Google Chrome OS

Google Seems to be following Microsoft way of launching different versions of Operating systems. Just like Windows 7 Home, and Windows 7 Professional etc, Google Chrome OS also will see a business version.

Speaking at this week’s RSA Conference, Google software security engineer Will Drewry revealed that Google will be releasing a “business version” of Chrome OS for netbooks sometime in 2011.  It will offer more “management muscle” than the consumer version.

Google is aiming at the it’s business customers who are using Google Apps for email docs and all other cloud based computing services. First Google gave them servers and software. Now, they will sell computers or laptops to use them too ! good job Google !!

Check out this video too ! pretty good one, about where google is heading ..

Google recently acquired cloud based photo editing app Picnik.com.This tool is going to be a huge win for Chrome OS. Every netbook that uses the operating system will have full access to a really good photo editor — something you traditionally needed a desktop client for.

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Parellels a company that helps Mac users run Windows and Linux on virtual machine environments has announced that they will support chrome os on their software.

Mac users will be able to run Chrome Os inside their OSX machines using the Virtual machine technology provided by Parallels.

“There is already a huge amount of interest in Google’s new OS, even though it’s still just in beta, so we want to make sure our customers can try it out on their Macs without impacting their primary work environment on Mac OS X,” said Kim Johnston, Vice President of Marketing for Consumer, Business and Online at Parallels

So, Mac users, get ready for Chrome OS experience inside your OSX Macbook or iMac

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Here is an interesting news. Google is Experimenting With Browser Login For Chrome OS.  ”Google has made a change to Chrome OS to move the user login from the machine to the browser. Our guess is Google is, or will eventually use, Google Friend Connect to facilitate login”  says Techcrunch.

The feature was first mentioned on October 13: “Using Chrome as our login manager has a number of potential benefits.
Explore these tradeoffs and decide what to do about the login manager.”

The code was checked in on December 14: “An early version of this change is finally in. It’s not ready for daily use yet, and we haven’t gotten the network picker on there or anything yet, but at least we’ve got a baseline in there. I’m filing issues for the follow-on work.”

Read More from Techcrunch to know how this might change your interaction with Google Chrome OS

Samsung working on a  Chrome-based netbook into its line-up later this year that will have built-in 3G Wi Fi capability and 12-hour battery life. This news came out along with Acer’s announcement that they are planning to produce 1 million Chrome OS based netbooks this year.

More Specs of the Netbook

10.1-inch LED display screen

2GB of memory

64GB of hard drive

and there is some  speculating that it could run the new Qualcomm 1.5MhZ Snapdragon processor. So, competition is being tightened among Netbook manufactures to be the first to launch Chrome OS based netbook, and with good price and specs.

Let’s wait for the best deal !!

Source: .channelnews.com.au