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We focus on three things. Speed. Simplicity. Security.

We want Chrome OS to be blazingly fast, basically instant-on. Chrome (the browser) on Chrome OS is going to be much faster.

The File System: It’s always auto-updated. There are a few areas of the hard disk. The root partition is read-only. This is locked down, which is unusual in OSes today. User data is always encrypted. This is key for safety of your data. So important if you lose your machine.

All user data is synced with the cloud at all times. If you lose your machine, it’s not really gone.

Q: What netbook are you running this on right now (for the demo)?

SP: That’s an Eee PC.

Q: Will there be an app store? What about driver certification? What about editing apps – like editing photos?

SP: We will have more details about the idea of an app store down the line. We care about web apps – on the web there are hundreds of millons of applications.

Q: Virtualization, can you run it now?

MP: Sure, you could build it and run it in a virtual machine. That’s a great way to compile and debug.

Q: What does Chrome OS do that other browsers on other OSes can’t do?

SP: Most of what we show here you can do in other browser. But there are new user concepts we’re exposing, app tabs, panels, and there will be more.

Q (from Steve): Realtime notifications on every page?

SB: I think we definitely need support for that in the browser. And especially in Chrome OS. Hopefully we can solve the problem of chatting when you’re not signed in to Google.

MP: There is a new notification API standard that is being worked on now.

Im the perfect target market for this. I do my work on a main computer and travel a reasonable amount with my netbook.

I use the netbook for email and web apps and some music. All of which Chrome OS can do…

Exactly… Just like windows is a place holder for office. They _used_ to have different approaches – not anymore. I barely distinguish between the two companies anymore.

Here you are fed with Win/Office, there are you fed with Chrome/G-Apps. Here you pay upfront, there you pay through ads, etc.

The funnything is that MS is dramatically more open then Google at this point. Is there a place for Google within an MS world? – of course, it’s mostly open.

Is there a place for Apple/MS within a Google world? – not even a link.

You login to Gmail, implicitly pre-forced with Google apps, without any option to integrate anything else. Same with Chrome, Chrome OS, and other Google online facility.

Google is the closest web eco-system today. Nothing but Evil.

Did you miss the part about it being Open Source? Dell, Acer, Gateway, HP, anyone making Netbooks can put links to whatever cloud based apps they want. They don’t HAVE to link to Gmail, Google Docs, etc.

I suspect they will voluntarily based on a cut of ad revenue. But the point remains, anyone can build a non-Google netbook using Chrome OS.

You can’t do that with Windows.

“the ultimate Goal of Google, which is to index all the worlds information”

Yes, and you can’t do that unless all the information is online. Or, even better, online and inside our data stores.

Everything from TiVo to Palm’s WebOS uses Linux as the kernel for their operating system — using the commodity underlying operating system (in the comp-sci sense of the term) and ignoring the commodity user interface systems. Here’s the telling line from Google’s announcement:

The software architecture is simple — Google Chrome running within
a new windowing system on top of a Linux kernel.

From a user-level perspective, Chrome isn’t going to look, act, or work anything like Windows. And that’s why Google has a chance to make something that might actually prove popular in a way that Ubuntu hasn’t.