On the plus side, Google has promised that Chrome OS devices will have the following five goodies:
1 ) Speedy
boot-up, as fast as three-seconds. A Chrome OS device will not store any
applications on the device itself. Nada, none, zippo, says Pichai. Likewise, it
will include only the hardware, right down to the component level, that Google
has approved in the hardware reference specification. The only applications it
is going to use are those that can be run from the cloud in an internet
browser, the Chrome browser, to be specific. One of the major reasons for this
is to speed up shoe time. With no local applications and limited hardware, the
device doesn't need to run through long checklist looking for devices and
drivers, loading programs into resident memory etc. It should turn on like a
television, says Pichai. Flip a change and the within three seconds browser
should be available, showing the most recent browser windows.
2) Security
automatically. The part of the operating system needed to operate the
device will reside in a read-only section of memory. The rest of the operating
system is integrated with the Chrome browser and, like the browser, security
updates require nothing more than a reboot. Silver OS can run multiple Web applications
in multiple tabs and each one is locked down from all others, so a
vulnerability in one Net iphone app can't lead to exposure in another. User
data stored on the device, which is little, is encrypted. User data is limited
to items such as user tastes. All other data will be stored in the cloud. User
preferences will also be synched to a cloud account, so like any thin client.
should you lose the device, you will merely record in from another one and your
data and tastes should be there.
3) Support
for both x86 and ARM architectures. Google promises that it will be writing
native code for both popular netbook computer CPUs.
4) The application
menu. As new Net applications come online tweaked for Chrome OS, Steel OS
will showcase them on a long term tab it now calls the program menu. This will
help users find new applications. Developers with new programs will find this a
simpler method to showcase them, too. Any Web software that runs in a standards
compliant browser should work on a Chrome OS device. But Chrome
OPERATING-SYSTEM is focused on supporting new protocols such as HTML CODE 5,
which, among other improvements, natively supports rich media.
5) A amazing
way to aid Microsoft Business office. If you ask a Google executive any
question involving Microsoft, you'll listen to the cliche answer -- that they
company thinks only of users and not of its recognized competitors. But in one
of the giggle-inducing occasions of Thursday's demo, Pichai, showed how Chrome
OPERATING SYSTEM would handle Office documents -- via Microsoft Workplace Live,
the free Web application version of Office offered to Windows Live users. In
the event that an user clicks on an. xls document, Stainless- launches Excel
via the browser in Office Live. "Microsoft launched a killer software for
Chrome OPERATING-SYSTEM... and is working very hard to do this, inch he
quipped.
But Chrome OS also has a number of downsides:
1) It truly is
considered a companion device. Google doesn't claim that this Web-only
device is useful in every cases or to all people and fact thinks that most
people who buy it will also own a full-blown PC. As the product will be too big
to become a mobile phone, people will also still need one of those. The big
lesson of the iPhone's success is that individuals want devices that do it all
-- and preferably with 1000s of downloadable applications, too. Chrome OS
devices will neither do it ing nor allow applications to be downloaded to the
client.
2) Vague support
for working offline. The device is built for connectivity. The only way to
work with programs and data offline is if the application creator buids some
sort of system into the app, supported by Chrome OS, says Pichai.. Google was
hazy as to how this would be done, but presumably through Google Armor and
weapon upgrades. Gears is the technique utilized by Google Apps for off-line
access. Applications have to specifically support it and since of yet, few do.
3) Nope, Android
applications won't work on Stainless- OS devices. Android programs must be
downloaded to the product so they are automatically not compatible with Chrome
OS.
4) Zero options for
choosing another browser. Chrome is built into Chrome OS. In the event you
want Firefox, or (gasp! ) Internet Explorer, you can't have it. On the other
hand Google points out that Chrome OS is open up source. This means that
Mozilla or Microsoft or others can grab the Chrome OS code, develop their own
Chrome OS os, integrate an alternate browser, and convince their own set of OEM
manufacturers to build compatible devices. How likely is that?
5) Uncertainty
about plug-ins and other methods of modification. As mentioned above,
google says it will eventually lean seriously on HTML 5 for Chrome OS, which,
among other attributes, uses a standardized rich media format. This makes it
unnecessary to download proprietary internet browser plug ins such as Adobe
Flash and Microsoft Silverlight. Of course, few Web sites today use HTML 5.
Interestingly, Google and bing executives absolutely promised that Chrome OS
would support Flash when devices delivered nonetheless they were evasive when
asked about Silvelight, saying only that they would share more info
about how the OS would deal with plugins at some point in the future. Users
won't be able to install binaries, so this doesn't just leave Silverlight out
in the dark. All plug-ins, widgets, applets and other poular methods for
modification are stuck under in the same vague cloud.
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