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Google to create new Chrome PC operating system

While the world has been focused on the when, how and where of Android appearing on netbooks, Google has been quietly creating yet another operating system, this one based on Chrome and unrelated to Android. Google is going after Microsoft at the jugular vein, yesterday targeting Office applications and e-mail and today the very platform on which PCs have always run. The OS, which will carry the same "Chrome" name as the company's browser, is expected to begin appearing on netbook computers in the second half of 2010, Google said in a blog post. The company is already in talks with multiple PC manufacturers it said. Stay tuned. Network World will have more details as we uncover them including a look at Google's security/privacy track record, enterprise reaction and competitors' reaction.

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  • Ex-Googler says Chrome OS will be a vastly different OS but won’t displace Windows Submitted by Google Subnet on Wed, 07/08/2009

    The following is a guest blog written by David Pinkus, a former high-level Google employee who is now senior vice president of information technology for Universal Technical Institute: I think a lightweight, browser-only operating system has been a long-time coming.  It's the actualization of what the network computer dream has been; albeit with the predictable concessions that the network isn't always available, and you need something resident on the machine itself to make it useful. But I was still surprised when I heard NPR lead off its Morning Edition newscast with Google's "Attack on Microsoft." Is it going to displace the Microsoft Windows desktops in most companies?  Is it a harbinger of a new computing model?  Here's what I think we'll see happen in the next 18-24 months:

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  • Imagine the Googlemobile Submitted by Google Subnet on Tue, 07/07/2009

    The firm that designed the G1 phone, Mike and Maaike, have developed a concept electric car. OK, I admit that this has nothing to do with Google except in the one degree of separation. It might have more to do with Apple in that the car, dubbed the "atnmble," looks somewhat like an old-style Macintosh monitor. The designers also envision this car to be "driverless." So, while it is toting you around town, you can chat on your G1 or surf the Web.

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  • Google drops beta label from Apps and downplays freebie version Submitted by Google Subnet on Tue, 07/07/2009

    Google claims that 1.75 million businesses use Google Apps and has decided that if it wants to score more enterprises, it must stop calling the cloud-based office and e-mail suite a "beta" product. So it killed the "beta" label from Google Apps today and pronounced it a "mature" product. It only took five years. Specifically, the beta label has been officially removed from Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Docs and Google Talk. Additionally, Google has promised to release increased e-mail management tools over the next few weeks and is talking up its resources to help enterprises migrate from Exchange or Lotus Notes to Apps.

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