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A Post on the Search Industry Blog
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By Nathan Enns on Friday, November 20th, 2009 at 8:46 AM
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Google talks about their operating system extension of Chrome (Google's web browser). You can also watch a demo.
What is Google Chrome OS? It is Google's web browser (Chrome) with extra features and a direct integration to specific brands of computer hardware so that certain computers can be used without other operating systems like Microsoft Windows (wait, why did they do that???).
According to their video even the fastest computers could still take a whole 45 seconds to boot up. After I heard that shocking news I immediately re-formatted by computer and re-installed everything to save 5 seconds :-) jk.
Their video also states that over time your current operating system gets "rusty" and your once "fresh" computer gets "slow". Does anyone know why that happens........? Because you installed, re-installed and un-installed programs that are not exclusively online.
If you only used your current computer for accessing external devices (internet, usb, dvd, mp3, etc) you would notice it doesn't slow down as much over time. If you use Chrome OS on the same computer for a long time you might notice that your friends who buy new computers have "fresher" and less "rusty" technology.
If you only use computers to browse the web then Chrome OS is probably something to consider buying when released (next year?). Without including most features that existing operating systems offer it should have no problem being faster.
Too bad (for Google) that their marketing assumed that everyone who uses the Internet only uses the Internet... lol. If the videos I watched were not biased it would have been possible to learn from them instead of interpreting them.
Google seems like a search engine but they are obviously not exclusively a search engine technology company anymore... guess I will have to figure out if non-search industry developments released by a search engine classify as post worthy.
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