Are the rumors about google working on a mystery OS true?”
Google OS: the end of the hard drive? By Dylan F. Tweney Computers that run on Google OS may boot up in only 7 seconds, like a TV. (WIRED) — Google today unveiled more details of Chrome OS, a lightweight, browser-based operating system for netbooks. With a strong focus on speed, the Chrome OS promises nearly instant boot times of about 7 seconds for users to login to their computers. “We want Google Chrome OS to be blazingly fast … to boot up like a TV,” said Sundar Pichai, vice president of product management for Google. The first Chrome OS netbooks will be available in late 2010, Pichai said. It will not be available as a download to run and install. Instead, Chrome OS is only shipping on specific hardware from manufacturers Google has partnered with. That means if you want Chrome OS, you’ll have to purchase a Chrome OS device. Google is currently working with unnamed computer manufacturers to define specifications for these computers, which Pichai said will include larger netbook
Wired.com has confirmed that Google will be demonstrating Google Chrome OS to the world sometime Thursday afternoon (morning in the US). What exactly will be revealed remains a mystery but the speculation online has been that a downloadable version will be released this week. This morning demonstration could well be the time for it, or it might not, we are pretty much left guessing as to what exactly it will mean to us. What is the point of it all? Why are Google making us suffer in anticipation? Give us something, please! 🙂 The wait is drawing to a close. What we expect to see is some sort of Linux variant that will mainly host the Chrome browser through which content will be blasted onto computers. The initial market was Netbook users, but lets be honest, Google has never been one to limit itself. They will be going big or nothing at all, of that we can be sure. How much information was sent into the world as disinformation we will not k
