Now, Google has already been hard at work to get Chromebooks out of the factory for quite sometime and with such rumors coming out, there are good chances that Google will not disappoint us this time.

Google has already released Chrome 8 and is working day-in, day-out to get Chrome Web Store functional and it all seems to indicate that ChromeBooks are now on their way.

But one must not expect too much out of this launch, if the rumors turn out to be true, simply because Google branded Chrome OS Netbooks will be extremely limited in production and may not be available to users for doing some ChromeOS shopping this holiday.

Chrome extension and Chrome web store developers might prove to be the lucky guys in grabbing the very fist chromebooks.

Let’s see if we hear some official announcement from Google regarding some event next tuesday or not !

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But there’s something that’s interesting to note here. Just couple of hours back, a cluster of Flash related bugs have been simultaneously updated with the same standard update message and then moved to Milestone R10

“Flapper won’t make it to R9.x so punting to R10″

Now, a total of 10 Flash related bugs have been simultaneously updated with this message and further moved to Milestone R10. What does that mean ?

May be, Flash bugs are temporarily deferred for now and all Flash support issues will not be fully resolved at the time when Google announces Beta version of Chrome OS to the world.

Looking at the Chrome OS bug history, Flash bugs in Chrome OS have been persistent since the very beginning of the project and have consumed a lot of time in getting resolved, and still, the bugs aren’t fully resolved as yet. Few hours back, a new Flash bug has been filed in Chrome OS bug list and this may not be the last Flash related bug on Chrome OS bug list.

Well, December isn’t too far and we will soon get clarification on all the speculations floating right now.

]]> http://www.googlechromeosupdate.com/chrome-os-flash-support/feed/ 2 http://www.googlechromeosupdate.com/chrome-os-beta/ http://www.googlechromeosupdate.com/chrome-os-beta/#comments Tue, 09 Nov 2010 09:21:53 +0000 admin http://www.googlechromeosupdate.com/?p=237 Here’s a mix of good and bad news for Chrome OS enthusiasts. The bad news first. The November 11 rumored date for Chrome OS launch is most likely shifted to later this month.

And now comes the good news. Chrome OS has likely hit the ‘Beta’ stage. Below is the snapshot that validates this assertion. The snapshot shows that ChromeOS is now “cros,beta,8.0.552.19,7.0.531.1” . ‘cros’ means ChromeOS.

Here’s the link for validation, which has been located from this bug listing. All these hints are possible indications that Chrome OS is very much ready for public debut by this month end.

Most of the debugging/resolution currently under progress is related to Build area(indicating near final build version) and DesignUI , both being associated with front-end issues, which are usually dealt at the final stages of software life cycle.

Serious Flash issues appear to have been resolved by now. The only left out bugs that are critical in nature and running under high priority relate to Power performance and Boot time lag.

Interestingly, drastically small Boot time was the main selling point of Chrome OS when Chrome OS got announced. It’s absurd that boot time is going upto 40 seconds, as reported in this bug.

Anyways, November 11, the rumored date for some big announcement from Google Chrome OS team is just two weeks away so event invites might hit the journos and tech bloggers, right at the start of next month.

Hold your breath…Some big news is cooking behind the scenes…

As no official comments have been made over the release date of ChromeOS powered netbooks, the only way to find any clue about Chrome OS is to dig out bug status reports and estimate the progress of Chrome OS by itself.

And after tracking bug reports of Chrome OS, we have a feeling that Chrome OS may probably get further delayed. Nov 11, the previously estimated date might just be the unveiling of the Operating System, not the actual release of Chrome OS powered Netbooks.

From there, Netbook manufacturers will also take couple of months to start selling Chrome OS powered Netbooks. So, taking a safe assumption, Chrome OS Netbooks should hit the market by March-April 2011.

But what has really kept the Chrome OS project from completing by now ? Keeping regular bugs aside, one big problem that’s bugging Chrome OS progress is Flash !

Call it the burden of staying compliant with Flash content, which is ubiquitous over Internet or dealing with power and performance issues that come with it, there is some good logic why Apple hates it so much and has picked HTML5 as an alternative instead.

These are the bugs in Chrome OS project revolving around Flash. In one of the threads, the bug is hovering around non-loading of Flash content on some hugely popular websites. Most of the Flash related bugs are still open, except this one that has been fixed just yesterday.

In some threads, Flash plugin has also been reportedly consuming unnecessary power and affecting the battery performance on Chrome OS loaded Netbooks. When Chrome OS got introduced, long battery performance was one of the main concerns of the Chrome OS team and we can only hope that Chrome OS team will(or probably has) find some solution to performance hindrance that comes along with Flash support.

As full Flash support is extremely critical at the launch of Chrome OS, the Google OS has to comply with Flash and fix all these bugs at the earliest. It remains to be seen, however, if Chrome OS team will be able to keep its due promise and announce the Chrome OS within next couple of weeks.

But along with all the accomplishments that HP has made in the past decade, one important area where HP is seriously lagging behind is its monopolized Print business. And it’s not HP’s competitors(Canon, Lexmark…) which are hurting the revenue stream of HP’s established print business but there’s a different sort of threat for them. It’s the Next Generation digital devices that are making Paper printing worthless.

With the advent of smartphones, e-readers and tablet devices, people are getting more adapted to reading content over the screen. Less people are looking interested in printing every single document they want to read as the comfort zone is slowly drifting to Wireless digital devices from Paper reading.

Dying business of Newspaper & Magazine industry is one big indicator. That’s probably the reason why media entities like WSJ and NYTimes have launched their iPhone and iPad apps, to keep serving their content to current generation of consumers.

Apart from the changing preferences of our generation when it comes to consuming content, there’s another reason why Printing is no more a desired thing for many of us. The reason is the incapability of most of the upcoming devices to start printing right away.

Majority of printers that HP builds today require printer specific drivers, wired connectivity, etc as the mandatory condition, which simply turns off anyone interested in taking a quick print from his smartphone or tablet, as all of them are wireless devices and don’t have printer drivers installed on their sleek machines.

All of this is hampering HP’s print business revenues to a great extent. Solution ?

HP has found a reliable companion, which will make things better than what they are now. Google and Google Cloud Print to be more specific.

As Chrome OS team announced earlier about Google Cloud Print, a cloud based service to execute printing jobs from any device (Desktop, phone or browser), without any need of printer drivers, it recently updated about the progress on Google Cloud Print service and also highlighted HP’s launch of full suite of cloud-aware printers ranging from $99 consumer printers to business-oriented printers.

As Google describes, Google Cloud Print can print from any printer, be it a legacy printer or upcoming Cloud aware printers but Google strongly recommends Cloud aware printers as they will give the best experience to the users. And supporting Google’s vision, HP has finally come up with affordable ‘Cloud aware’ printers.

Google employees have started internal testing of ‘Google Cloud Print’ service employing HP’s cloud aware printers and it seems that the goods(Chrome OS) are most likely to be delivered on time(this fall), as committed.

As more and more people are spending substantial time on Internet and more likely from their wireless devices(smartphones, tablets), if all of us become able to start printing right from our smartphones and tablet devices, HP will have far less problems to deal with, to keep its print business revenues flowing.

When Google promised that Chrome OS Netbooks will be out in the market by fall 2010, it was presumed that multiple Netbook manufacturers will come up with Chrome OS Netbooks but now, it seems that Google doesn’t want to take any chance in launching its own OS and simply wants to ensure that Chrome OS Netbook becomes a Standard within Netbook industry.

It might be a case that Google branded Netbook may serve as the exclusive distributor of Chrome OS, much like Apple’s business model but this is just a presumption as yet. It has been Google’s nature(as what you can see with Android) to build the software side and let multiple hardware brands do the rest of the job and hence it would be a tough call for Google to go exclusive with Chrome OS.

There is another possibility that Google may become one of the many Netbook brands to offer Chrome OS. But frankly, no hardware OEM would like competing with Google on hardware front especially when the OS is built by Google itself. At worst, this might even happen but only if OEMs get terribly scared of getting out of business if they boycott Chrome OS in their Netbook offering.

Now that Google is making its entry at mobile hardware front with Nexus One (the Google Phone) along with Android, it is looking more probable for Google to come up with a Google branded Chrome OS Netbook as well.

As per the rumor mill, this Google branded Chrome OS Netbook might be sold with a 2 year data plan contract with a carrier.

So guys, whatever the case be, you better hold your plans to buying a Netbook until next Christmas. We bet, you won’t regret !

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Now, after the Chrome OS event happened last month, the concerns over ‘Chrome OS Security’ have started brewing up again. If anyone, even Google says that security will not at all be an issue then you better be paranoid.

With everything being hosted in the cloud, the security concerns will not be totally eliminated. Rather, there will be completely different kinds of security loopholes discovered in Cloud computing space. As Cloud computing will offer more benefits than concerns, it will keep growing at a fast pace but security issues will still exist. The difference will be the responsibility factor.

Right now, if someone’s data gets affected by a virus, he can’t blame anyone but himself but when the data will be hosted on the cloud, the responsibility will be more on the cloud hosting service provider than the individual.

Things will be different !!

Now, this is our take at Chrome OS and why we believe that ‘Life on the Web’ is Inevitable.

If you’re one of those web fanatics(still a poor minority at global scale) and spend almost 90% of your computing time on the web today, you were certainly spending around 50% of your computing time on web around five years back(2004) and probably spending 25% of your computing time some ten years back(1999) and so on…

In last five years, technology took a long leap, with wireless internet taking the lead and super fast internet access becoming a common and affordable service, mostly in developed countries such as US, UK and other european countries. In next five years, the technology will pacen up even more.

In next five years, developing countries will start picking up the same trend and start spending most of their time on web. Now, if all of us will virtually do everything on the web and do just a couple of tasks such as photoshopping, data storage, msoffice etc on desktop, why take all the hassles and money pains that desktop OS brings along when all these residual activities can also be substituted with a web based alternative, similar to what happened to videos, music…etc…etc

Chrome OS is just a tunnel to get to the Inevitable Future of Human Computing.

The only reason why the whole Chrome OS concept is facing some level of criticism is only because it’s probably….before its time. It is the same criticism that every revolutionary attempt is bound to come across.

Chrome OS is NOT the Present, It’s the Future And the Future is Inevitable and so is Chrome OS

And trust us on this statement…a decade from now(2019), you would laugh on today (2009) when we have to spend thousands of bucks on buying OS, Office apps, softwares and similar stuff as all these things will come at ZERO cost to us. It’s only a matter of time.

]]> http://www.googlechromeosupdate.com/future-of-chrome-os/feed/ 1 http://www.googlechromeosupdate.com/install-chromium-os/ http://www.googlechromeosupdate.com/install-chromium-os/#comments Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:48:28 +0000 admin http://www.googlechromeosupdate.com/?p=125 As everyone out here might be knowing that the Chrome OS has been open sourced to public, everyone can take it and make its own build by tweaking the Chrome OS code from now on. But it might prove to be a hectic task if you want to tweak the code yourself, specially if you aren’t a developer.

No issues. There’s an easy way to get Chrome OS running on your machine by this Do-It-Yourself method. Here you go !

1. First, you need to download the torrent from here and download the Chrome OS build thereafter.

2. Download a version of VirtualBox for your Windows/Mac machine from here . It’s a virtualization tool for temporarily running an OS on your existing OS. Install it and go through the wizard step by step.

3. Just make sure that while going through the wizard based installation, select Virtual Media Manager->Add->(Now browse the Chrome OS image you had downloaded earlier) and install the Chrome OS on existing hard disk.

4.  You’re done ! Click ‘Start’ and Chrome OS is ready for you…