Replacing Rubin is Sundar Pichai, who heads Google Chrome OS and apps efforts.
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Funnily enough, even, we felt more comfortable using Android in a desktop setting than we did with Google Chrome OS, which was actually designed with PC form factors in mind.
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With Chromebooks gaining traction in schools and Acer touting successful sales of their C7 Chromebook, HP is set to enter the Google Chrome OS fray with their reveal of the HP Pavillion Chromebook.
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If you're particularly attuned to tech gossip, you'll know that Google's Chrome OS announcement has prompted a lot of whispers about something called "Gazelle" being cooked up in Microsoft's labs.
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Google has revealed its first Chrome Os-powered notebook, to be called the Cr-48, according to trustedreviews.com.
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"Chromebooks are in use today by more than one-thousand K-12 schools, and they make an ideal on-to-one device because they're more cost effective, easier to manage and maintain than traditional laptops or tablets, " said Caesar Sengupta, director of product management, Chrome OS, Google.
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Aside from its core search business and the dozens or hundreds of private desires we type into its search box daily, its projects like Chrome OS and now Google Drive illustrate that Google wants private users and even businesses to someday store everything in the cloud.
Google will distribute the laptop through its Chrome OS Pilot Program, in a sort of public beta.
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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Besides a seemingly broad range of employees, consumers, and technology journalists, Google is running beta tests of the Chrome OS machine with a range of businesses and institutions, including American Airlines, Kraft, Interncontinental Hotels, Cardinal Health, Virgin America, and the Department of Defense.
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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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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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.
Google 's ( GOOG - news - people ) new Chrome OS, introduced last month, may even allow hardware makers to subsidize the sales of netbooks with ad revenue.
The newspaper pointed out that Google has faced similar struggles in other consumer electronics introductions, as with its Chrome OS software for laptops and the Android platform for smartphones, meant to rival Apple's products.
We've already seen that early builds of Google's Chromium OS can be hacked onto existing machines, but those Chrome OS netbooks that the software giant has planned for next year have remained curiously elusive until now.
No one would accuse Samsung or other Chrome OS supporters of hardware overkill: the Chromebox Series 3 and other Google-based PCs often carry just enough processing grunt to browse the web properly.
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Chrome OS, and its open-source sibling, Chromium OS, are Google's answer to the desktop computer.
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