Over on Connected Internet, Mike has posted some screenshots of what is rumoured to be a leaked early build of Chrome OS. From the Google Chrome OS screenshots you will see that it is very, very basic although Google have always said that Chrome OS would be a very lightweight OS for netbooks, so this is to be expected.
Should Microsoft be worried by Chrome OS? I think they are, because in order to keep the costs of budget devices down hardware manufacturers want low OS costs and we can see this in the number of devices already shipping with Linux, and this is why Microsoft created Windows 7 Starter edition to try and keep these manufacturers within the Windows fold and to counter this threat.
Google Chrome OS could be ideal for 2nd/3rd devices in the home, where customers do not want to pay for an additional copy of Windows 7. In fact, it could even be suitable for a main device – I now work full-time online for a living and a rebuilt my main PC a few days ago using the free copy of Windows 7 Ultimate I was given last week. I was in a rush so post installation I only installed the essentials – Google Chrome, Microsoft Office, Adobe Acrobat, iTunes for my iPhone 3GS, Filezilla and Notepad++. So far I’ve survived, and apart from iTunes I’m sure I would be able to install or support similar applications and file formats with Google Chrome OS. Long-term I know I won’t be able to and I’ll have to complete my PC build, but if it meant saving a few hundred dollars maybe I would rough it out.
Do you think Google Chrome OS will be a threat to Windows 7?
Not at all… Unless it can run Every program that windows and Mac can run…
No. Linux on netbooks didn’t go down well at all, so I have trouble seeing why something that is capable of even less is supposed to do much better.
google os is no threat at all….not even close. maybe for the netbook market, but that is all. it will not have the features to compete with microsoft. no way , no how.
i’ve tested this crap! its horrible! you know…its a simple (re)distribution of Suse (a simple linux based os) made with suse studio (which can be used for any child to design its own system -suse based-) and it includes YaST (a simplified setup asistant for noobs)… my internal questions after that were… “this is really?” “its a joke?” “i can not believe!”
this os is only a stupid system which can be done by a child! its the worst system ive ever seen before!
im seriously talking, WITH THIS, GOOGLE NEVER ABSOLUTELY NEVER WOULD TERRIFY MICROSOFT! its only marketing and rumors to make the things appear big and amazing…
i repeat…this system for now…its only crap…
see you soon!
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I don’t see any damage that Chrome OS will do to Microsoft in the short-term. It’s too early to tell since it’s in the development phrase with missing features and components before hitting the masses. Besides Windows 7 is 1000x better than any other OS on the market right now and serious what makes Chrome OS better than Windows 7?
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Google should stay an online e-mail account and search engine. They’ve done great with google desktop and such, but they’ve gotta remember that to incorporate EVERYTHING in a *GOOGLE* web browser, everyone’s gotta switch to google based software.QUOTE from http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2009/09/youre-…“”If you use Google Chrome and Google’s web applications, then you’re already running Google Chrome OS. Just maximize Google Chrome’s window and imagine that each tab is an instance of an application. Gmail is your mail client, Google Calendar is the calendaring application, Google Docs is the office suite and the file explorer. Google Chrome’s new tab page is the desktop, the dashboard that lists frequently used applications and lets you add widgets.”"No way. You cant have everyone fully switch to google based software just because you launch a new browser. I’m telling you, they’re gonna have a LOT of compatibility issues.
P.S. No offense but google chrome isn’t all that popular, at least not for non-technical users. Some web developers use it, but if Google OS wants to really compete, they need to make Chrome popular first.
(see http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2009/06/29/google-chrome-more-popular/ for reasons why chrome isn’t that popular.)
After looking at this initially and thinking “gee, it’s too bad someone leaked these photos before they had integrated the new windowing system”, I now think this is nothing more than some linux distro with a Google Chrome GRUB graphic. I bet if you dug around in /etc you wouldn’t find a single file with the word Google in it.
Nothing to get excited about here, move along.
I still am looking forward to see what Google does come up with. Using the linux kernel and userland isn’t necessarily a Bad Thing. For one, it gives them a lot of hardware support out of the box. They already made the wisest move they could have by announcing it would use a proprietary windowing system instead of X. This means it will be missing a lot of what desktop linux users take for granted, but it also means that it won’t be carrying around 25 years of X baggage. Also, the last thing the world needs is yet another Gnome or KDE desktop.
If Google is smart, and we know they are, they have some smart people working on interface design. If they can deliver a desktop that makes people want to use it, and strip away the things that make linux unattractive (why is linux slower and more of a resource hog today on hardware we couldn’t have dreamed of 10 years ago, when 10 years ago it was renowned for being snappy on slow hardware?), they may make their own niche. I’m not talking threat for desktop dominance, but a market share that would justify the effort. Now, throw some hardware vendor relationships into the mix and….
http://sites.google.com/site/chromeoslinux/
Google need to stop trying to take over the world! Ok maybe it’s an exaggeration but they do, email, web content, google docs, google voice,google maps, android, picassa, sketch up, you tube, google books, Google Chrome, Chrome OS and theres more that i just can’t think of right now.
The only way chrome OS is going to offer competition is in the netbook market to keep netbook costs down. Unless Google come up with a fully rich interface and new functionality and something new, they won’t be able to compete with Microsoft or Apple for that
Chrome OS is just a linux distro (just like Fedora, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Suse, etc.). Other than the browser and the background, it’s just linux.
It’s fake chrome OS LOL. It’s remake of suse
Can’t belive u made a topic of this 
Two words perfectly describe American society… “instant gratification”. That’s what we want. We want things right now. If Chrome OS can boot up and connect to the internet in mere seconds, which Google has stated, you will never want to go back to windows.
Chrome OS will crush windows. 99% of people who use the internet are just average people. They check e-mail, browse sites, do some online shopping, update their facebook page, send off a few tweets, play some online games, write a paper for some class, use a spreadsheet, etc.
They are not programmers, they are not software engineers, they are not bloggers, they are not scientists, they are not game developers, they are not journalists. They are just normal people who do normal things. They want to get on the internet in seconds, not minutes.
Once they realize this will be possible with Chrome OS, they will never go back to windows. No matter how many fancy bells and whistles windows has, they will never go back to it.
Instant gratification… that’s what our society wants.
its very funny, because googlechorom is small, in fact microsoft is forums & active but google is very beginner . google thinks can deal with microsoft. google make chorome in internet browser but it isnt work properly, in contrast all internet site work with microsoft internet explorer . all add on install on microsoft internet explorer but google isnt such. much earlier linux starts work, today linux designs programs until windows program work in linux os because windows program is surround and efficient. in contrast microsoft doesnt design any program for run linux or other os program in windows because microsoft doesnt need to linux program. now google come, designs Os, os that is linux based!!!!
what should microsoft be worried?
this topic is very joke!
iam sorry. because idont type english properly. iam iranian.
thank you!
All sites work in Internet Explorer?
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no certainly all site work in google chrome!!!!!!!!! you speak From the prejudice. I always do test new program. yes, firefox is good but it uses of CPU too much and sometimes its crash. opere, safari and flock are here but google chrome is funny!! very funny!!!!!!! he he,
Here is the problem I have with your statement about IE:
As a web developer I have to write markup that works in all browsers. Historically I have had to include special markup just for IE, so that IE users would get the same experience as everyone else. Why? Because IE is not standards compliant. If I go to the trouble to write perfect markup so that all readers get the same experience, why should I be defeated by a browser that does not support those very standards?
I can tell you from experience that when it comes to standards compliance, no browsers beat the Webkit family of browsers. No competition. On top of that, they also destroy every other browser when it comes to rendering speed.
Internet Explorer, and this includes 8, is the single worst browser available to the end user. I can’t tell you how many times a day I have to manually kill IE8 at work because it becomes unresponsive and drags the whole system down with it. Horrible.
Google Chrome is not finished. It does not possess the level of spit and polish that Safari does at this time. It is however, the fastest web browser available, and the level of compatibility is very good, almost as good as Firefox.