Google has shown off its Chrome OS operating system and along with the announcement that the code was now open source was a video explaining the thought behind the OS.
Unlike Windows, Chrome OS is all about the browser, with a focus on 'speed, simplicity and security' - a phrase used many times.
"Today we are open-sourcing the project as Chromium OS," blogged Google.
"We are doing this early, a year before Google Chrome OS will be ready for users, because we are eager to engage with partners, the open source community and developers.
"As with the Google Chrome browser, development will be done in the open from this point on. This means the code is free, accessible to anyone and open for contributions."
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mollydog
November 20th 2009
2. Windows is not the only use of a PC either :o)
1) MPlayer
2) Rythmbox
3) Spotify
4) Skype
5) Gimp, Inkscape, Scribus etc
6) OpenOffice
7) Google Sketchup (Using Wine)
8) Transmission Bittorrent etc
9) Offline Games, Windows games too
10) Google Earth
Linux is not god either, but it must be close ;)
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tech89
November 19th 2009
1. The internet is not the only use of the PC!
There is:
1) Windows media player for dvds and video files
2) itunes for music
3) spotify
4) skype
5) Publishing software (illustrator, photoshop, dreamweaver, quark)
6) Microsft office software
7) Google sketchup
8) Utorrent and limewire
9) Offline Games (sims 2/3, etc)
10) Google Earth
There you go, I named 10 things that cannot be accessed through a browser (they need internet for updates etc).
So the browser is not god!
And advertising the internet with youtube, facebook is not a good thing, they're loss making, yet to make a profit machines!
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