November 21st, 2009 at 11:47 am

Certainly something that I will look at under a virtual install, google is doing a bunch of interesting and innovative things.

November 21st, 2009 at 1:27 pm

i do not like this save to web thing ,can see that getting exploited,

November 21st, 2009 at 1:48 pm

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November 21st, 2009 at 2:29 pm

any move in getting people away from windows and internet explorer deserves a medal. This isn’t for me but innovative and might suit some people to a T.

November 21st, 2009 at 3:01 pm

At #2 and #3 and #6. Goes for me too.

November 21st, 2009 at 3:30 pm

If it does save all the porn related data packets from my computer it will most definitely crash their servers. Forever.

November 21st, 2009 at 4:04 pm

@ 7 (Blizza Monkey): why?

November 21st, 2009 at 4:14 pm

@13 thom

Because windoze sucks.But cloud computing sucks more, so it shouldn’t apply.

November 21st, 2009 at 5:15 pm

@13 thom windows is a heap of steaming shite, internet explorer ruins websites meaning that I have to tweak every website that I make to work on it, microsoft office is the only app that gives me trouble on my mac and it just makes life hard for soo many people, and the sad thing is they don’t know any different.

My friend and colleague, a hardcore PC fan has just gone over to Ubuntu and is loving it. Death to Windows and please imprison and torture anyone that has had anything to do with internet explorer.

Guttsy move by Google taking a hit at windows - good on ‘em.

@11. PhaNTOM - hysterical, and the fundamental flaw in the whole thing!!

1984 here we come!

November 21st, 2009 at 5:35 pm

I’m really struggling to work out what Google Chrome OS will have that can’t be done with a netbook, laptop or desktop with a browser (not necessarily the Google Chrome browser either). The only way Google could gain an advantage, surely, is to close-source some major part of the OS so that it has a commercial advantage over any old machine+Linux.

Not being able to run local apps and being heavily reliant on a Net connection (with only very limited use if your connection drops) seems like a step backwards in my book. Never mind all the draconian limits Google want to put in to tie hardware to the OS (only SSDs for example, which again begs the question how do you access all your [possibly paid-for] media if your connection dies - SSDs won’t be big enough to store a couple hundred GBs and that’s only 40-odd high-def movies even if they’ve been re-compressed to 4.4GB each). Never mind that mobile connections are nowhere near good enough to stream hi-def content yet either.

Sorry, but I’m stifling a big yawn about this - people are only excited about it because of the Google brand name. It seems to have some serious disadvantages and no obvious advantage over a plain Windows/Linux netbook at all from what I can see.

November 21st, 2009 at 5:39 pm

@ 18 (Newtype): IKR! What the fuck is this ribbon shit? Seems to me the damn things has got more complicated and less accessible with every single iteration. I can’t even use the basic functions of Word anymore…

November 21st, 2009 at 6:12 pm

@19

I agree that the cloud is bad, but you’re a dam fool if you think proprietary software in general doesn’t bring any privacy problems.

November 21st, 2009 at 6:42 pm

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November 21st, 2009 at 6:49 pm

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November 21st, 2009 at 7:27 pm

That’s right, windows is a glorified gaming console.

November 21st, 2009 at 8:34 pm

but what is up with our data being saved on their hd this doesnt seem good
so your chrome will be basiclley upload everything and if u dont have internet it,s useless
i hope they consider the online option

November 21st, 2009 at 9:13 pm

Anyone who puts any important personal information on any puta which connects to the web has endangered their security. Sure windoze security is tighter than a snappers butt for keeping Uri from the Urals or Aziz from egypt outta your stuff but since 2002 every encryption/security system marketed in the US has included a back door, ostensibly to catch terra-ists and drug runners but in reality anyone who gets chosen. Your data is probably being mined right now, not to target you personally but just so a running profile of your demographic keeps your ‘betters’ informed of likely ‘anomalies’.
So when it comes to pointing the finger at google or chrome I’ve got to laugh.
There was a big fuss kicked up in the media when google acquiesed to the Chinese govts demands but what they didn’t bother to emphasise was that Google was the last major software and services company to crack, M$, IBM (hell IBM merged with a chinese govt corporation) Yahoo and all the other search engines/web platforms had agreed to the chinese demands years before. Google hung out for an extra two years and the other corporations took revenge on Google for making em look bad by blowing up the news of Google’s surrender.
Google’s not pure - none of them are and anyone who trusts any of the software combines deserves what they get, but that said there is much to be gained for sensible people who choose to run Chrome on a virtual machine.
most of the traces can be obliterated with the destruction of the VM. The rest is in the cloud sure but mining that data isn’t so easy if you are careful. I don’t know about you guys but I grabbed a mob of google accounts back when they were begging us to take them. Even now (especially with a VM and MAC spoofing) getting a few extra gmail accounts is easy.
Smart fellas are doing in now before it gets harder.

November 21st, 2009 at 11:22 pm

@ 11 (PhaNTOM):

Google OS is not for the PORN lovers.

All my PORN searches saved forever on Google servers.

Hell No!

November 22nd, 2009 at 1:25 pm

Hell no to cloud computing. I won’t take even a million dollars just to put my data on to the clouds they’ve been building. And yeah, Google Chrome OS is indeed suitable for netbook, nettop or just surfing PC’s. Yes, it might be internet oriented, but the technology of computers didn’t start on having its main functions on the internet. Internet served only for convenience in doing PC applications, but not solely on internet. I guess the only thing the OS is good at will be.. browsing…

November 22nd, 2009 at 4:46 pm

I love these anti-windows comments, do you people have a clue what you are talking about?

@ 17 (Blizza Monkey): You obviously don’t code according to WC3 Validators, I used to have that problem with internet explorer - like several years ago when I was about 13. Yes I don’t use Internet Explorer but have you even tried the latest version in Windows 7? Runs as smoothly as Firefox + even has a compatibility system to try help old-websites. AND at the end of the day - Windows is set-up so that if you don’t like something like Internet Explorer - how many options do you have?

Using Internet Explorer to criticise Windows in this day and age pretty much shows you really don’t know much.

You whine about the sad thing being people not knowing any different - how many people use computers? When you leave the house and, say, have to go food shopping - do you whine about there being too many people there who say can’t be bothered to go to a cheaper place 5 mins down the road etc… You can apply that ridiculous argument for anything, at the end of the day - if it annoys someone so much they can easily search for another Office suite (e.g. OpenOffice, that’s so hard to find isn’t it?) as well as use the Online Google apps that have been available. If people don’t like it they can easily find a replacement, but people like you, find its much easier to whine and like to think you’re not sheep following the flock.

Your friend, a hardcore PC fan just moved to ubuntu and, therefore, Windows is terrible? Argh I can’t believe I waste so much time on people like you but such ignorance really irritates me. As a computer science student, I guess i’d consider myself a pretty damn hardcore computer user and have been for the past 8-10 years now. I started on Windows 95, have fucked up countless computers from being young and testing foolish things - but the great thing - I’ve hardly been through many physical machines because I can so reinstall Windows and all its software so easily. Sure they’ve arguable got into such a strong position from some nasty business techniques, but welcome to the business world. Go suck your rip-off mac, who if were in Windows position a decade ago, wouldn’t have had such a great open community with computing, they want their users being locked into the Mac-style of computing so they can hardly escape.

Guttsy move by Google taking a hit at windows - good on ‘em.
@ 15 (hitchi): What OS do you use then?

November 23rd, 2009 at 7:29 am

@ thom - you say you love these anti-windows comments and then you go and have a big tantrum. Sorry I wasn’t coding websites at 13 I must have been outside having fun with all the other children. Fkin nerd.

OK, you know a lot more about all this fascinating stuff, so I apologise for having an opinion on something i haven’t done a degree in - oh but I have! I have been using a computer for ten years now, for my degree and now my job and you know what? Windows is a heap of shit, especially IE and if you think it’s just me then go to css-discuss and ask the guys there (oh yeh, I use the mailing list so that I can code correctly. Now who is the ignorant assumption making tool?).

Getting back to IE. Windows 7 is very recent. i read a nice article about how if microsoft screwed it up again (vista was a shambles) they might be facing their downfall. But hey, I know everyone has upgraded to 7 by now, and that people aren’t still using IE6 and 7? Look at the statistics you tool. Talk to me about coding standards and that being what IE is about? Can you hear yourself or are you really this deluded?

It’s a computer, it’s an OS, I wasn’t insulting your mother so keep you knickers on!

I have never crashed my computer, i have never broken the machine. You have. I stated my opinion, you had a tantrum and started throwing insults.

How do you like them apples?

(P.S. I smiled when i read how upset you got - little bitch)

November 25th, 2009 at 3:38 pm

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