nsane.forums Posted December 4, 2010 Share Posted December 4, 2010 Debut for new OS to herald Microsoft fight? Google has issued invitations to a launch event on 7 December, which is widely expected to be the first display of netbooks powered by the Chrome operating system. The Chrome OS was first announced in 2009 and has elicited interest from Acer, Dell and others but no official platforms have been launched as yet. If rumours are correct, Google could also be announcing an application store for the OS. The first netbooks on show won’t be a mass-market device but will come as a limited run of around 65,000 units that will be sold to Google “friends and family,†according the Engadget. The netbooks are to be powered by the Atom processor and Acer has been widely touted as the manufacturer. The invitations were sent on to coincide with a major update to the Chrome browser, which fixed over 800 bug and stability flaws and added sandboxing security for PDF files to cut down on malware transmission. Google has big plans for its operating system, which will be based on support from the open source community the company has said. Executives have reportedly predicted that as much as 50 per cent of Microsoft’s install base, particularly in the corporate and embedded space, could be vulnerable to Chrome OS in the long term. Chrome OS was initially envisioned as a netbook operating system and the company has said that it is designed for keyboard operation. However, with net book demand stalling and manufacturers piling into the more lucrative tablet market Chrome OS also may be repositioned as a multi-platform OS. View: Original Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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