Today (19 Nov. 2009) Google Chrome OS opened its doors to everyone. I have watched the live feed from their broadcast and made a collection of videos and informations regarding Google’s new OS. It seems that Google wants a piece of everything. Although the new OS looks ok and outperforms anything i’ve see so far in terms of speed, i highly doubt that it will have the impact Google wants it to have. We shall see… In the meantime, read on for some facts about ChromeOS
Google just released the Chromium Open Source Project Package . Will it impact the industry ?
Google Is Keeping Chrome OS Simple. Maybe Too Simple. Via TechCrunch
Crazy Monkey Shoes are the new thing! Sergey Brin wears them again! From CrunchGear
You can find below 3 videos of the new Google Chrome OS.
From the google blog…
Today we are open-sourcing the project as Chromium OS. 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. The Chromium OS project includes our current code base, user interface experiments and some initial designs for ongoing development. This is the initial sketch and we will color it in over the course of the next year.
Google OS that even your grandmma can understand
Sergey Brin Interview
[...] Call us dumb businessmen, but we really focus on user needs rather than think about strategies relative to other companies and whatnot
There is a real user need to be able to use computers easily. These netbooks are now $300 to $400, it is really easy to buy one. You could buy 5 to put them around your house. But if you did it today there is no way you could manage them. The overhead to manage the software on them would be way too high.
We believe the web platform is a much simpler way, where the machines are essentially stateless, more cache-like, but can still be performant. And yet much easier and simpler for individuals to use. Since that is a very important need in the market right now, that is what we are trying to fill.
Here is a video of the Google Chrome OS boot-up (7 seconds).
And one more: A concept video: