Replacing Rubin is Sundar Pichai, who heads Google Chrome OS and apps efforts.
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Chrome OS, and its open-source sibling, Chromium OS, are Google's answer to the desktop computer.
Chrome OS delivers that ecosystem in a pure form, providing the best possible experience.
It even has an Ethernet jack, something that Samsung's removed from its latest Chrome OS device.
Google has revealed its first Chrome Os-powered notebook, to be called the Cr-48, according to trustedreviews.com.
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Built for the cloud, they run through a combination of the Chrome OS browser and Web apps.
Google will distribute the laptop through its Chrome OS Pilot Program, in a sort of public beta.
This is partially attributed to lower IT department expenses, as Chrome OS is seamlessly and automatically updated.
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Under the agreement, Quanta will pay Microsoft royalties for each Android or Chrome OS powered device that it sells.
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With the lightweight Chrome OS, Chromebooks should be shipping with all day battery life, especially when targeted toward students.
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Until today, it's been tough for even Chromebook sympathizers to defend Chrome OS' status as a bona fide operating system.
Unfortunately Chrome OS offers so little in the way of exclusive benefits that you may start craving that Linux install.
Its Chrome OS has a history of being secure (although cloud computing will never be as protected as a local personal hard-drive).
The early customers for this new Chrome OS based computer (with no admin-costs) are American Airlines, Intercontinental Hotels and some retailers.
To an extent, Chrome OS and its host hardware compliment each other.
Chrome OS arrived on devices that weren't priced competitively against then-popular netbooks.
Chrome OS laptop computers, built by hardware partners, are currently on sale.
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The fact is, Google is preparing the marketplace for the Chrome OS for the web, an Android for our notebooks and netbooks.
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Android running within Chrome OS now feels like a lock, which could make that touchscreen on the Pixel a wee bit more useful.
Google also developed a new operating system called Chrome OS that is derived from its browser technology and designed to run only Web-based software.
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Already, Chrome OS has some of the same features as Android, such as a touch interface on its latest high-end notebook, the Chromebook Pixel.
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Let's start with the basic premise of Firefox OS. Like Chrome OS, there's little more here than a web browser running on top of Linux.
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I'd ask the same about Chrome and Chrome OS as well.
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It even has an Ethernet jack, which you won't find on any other Chromebook, now that Samsung's removed that feature from its Chrome OS device.
Today, Google announced an update to its management console for Chrome OS that allows for Managed Public Sessions -- in other words, a kiosk mode.
That seems to be the thought behind Chrome OS, a minimalist operating system that Google announced it was working on a couple of months ago.
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While it may be nowhere near Android's scale in terms of overall devices, Chrome OS is now offered by three of 2012's top Windows PC manufacturers.
Unlike PCs that use installed software such as Microsoft Word, Chrome OS computers run their applications through the firm's web browser and store their files in the cloud.
We've had plenty of pre-knowledge on this, but surprisingly this is our first actual glimpse of Google's new unbranded "Cr-48, " the very first Chrome OS laptop.
Chrome OS is designed primarily to work with applications such as e-mail, word-processors, calendars and the like that are stored in the cloud rather than on a user's hard-drive.
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