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GPFontaine
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SoldierHawk
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Title: Warrior-Poet
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Cool. I'll be interested to see how this plays out. Google is slowly but surely taking over.
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Ba'al
Title: Zerg Zergling
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I have never tried the Google Chrome web browser, but couldn't they have called it something else? I mean so people don't confuse the two.
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SoldierHawk
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Well I assume you could just say "Chrome Browser" or "Chrome OS" to differentiate. Not that hard, eh?
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GPFontaine
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| I have never tried the Google Chrome web browser, but couldn't they have called it something else? I mean so people don't confuse the two. |
But that is the whole point. They are trying to make a clear point, "You do not need the OS for anything other than to run a browser. All you need is well developed web applications."
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Syd Lexia
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Title: Pop Culture Junkie
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So are you saying the OS won't be able to run AIM or BitTorrent or Thunderbird? Gaaaaaaaaaaaay.
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JoshWoodzy
Joined: May 22 2008
Location: Goshen, VA
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I find it impossible to believe that they would make it unable to run simple applications such as AIM or uTorrent. If so, then, well. Gay.
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docinsano
Title: Boner King
Joined: Jan 08 2008
Location: Mpls Mini Soda
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It sounds like in the future Google may sell its very own GoogleBook, an internet notebook preinstalled with Google's chrome OS and made exclusively to surf the internet and use google's apps.
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Hacker
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Joined: Sep 13 2008
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I hope the OS will at least allow you to download files to a flash drive
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Thorton02
Joined: Mar 13 2009
Location: Arlington
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I thought I read that it's supposed to be a very simple OS, designed for notebooks. It's a good step forward and I like the idea of 3rd party apps. I nice way to really customize our pc's. Although, this could be an open door for viruses and spyware.
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GPFontaine
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Location: Connecticut
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It will be open source, so it will support apps no doubt, but the point is for it to support web built applications.
This means that if a browser can support it then it will run. I think they want local apps to be written more like HTA files.
Google is pushing for web based clients like Meebo vs apps that have a thick client like AIM.
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