Recently Slashgear has reported that “Component makers are whispering that the fabled Google Chrome OS will ship in November”, and also cites Digitimes reports that “Google will supposedly planning the launch its own brand Chrome notebook along the lines of Nexus One”.
Though according to some other news Google will only launch software rather than hardware, and has been told by the search giant that “We’re not going into details at this point”.
Schmidt also confirmed at the Web 2.0 Summit talk that Chrome OS was meant for keyboards, while Android was meant for touch. Very soon a first beta release of the Chrome OS will be available for users waiting from a long time. Currently six bugs presenting major problems in the software. Problematic features, however, could be removed to speed up the release date.
It will be free and open source
It is built on the Linux Kernel but has a totally new windowing system.
It will run Web apps as if they're native desktop apps.
It is not a handset OS like Android, but there will be "overlap" in functionality
Acer, Adobe, ASUS, Freescale, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, and Toshiba have all voiced support for Chrome OS.
Chrome OS Director Matthew Papakipos is director of the HTML 5 Open Web Platform efforts at Google.
The underlying security architecture of "standard" operating systems is being completely redesigned.
Java may be the main choice for enterprise development now, but it’s days are numbered as the only stalwart option to go with.
ReplyDeleteLet’s face it, many of these so called “enterprise applications” could easily have been written much faster and with less overhead using technologies like Python, PHP, et al.
html5 training