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Google Event Tomorrow: First Insights Into Google Chrome OS Unveiled [UPDATE]

By Alex Wilhelm
October 14, 2009
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If you live in the Bay Area, Google has quite a treat for you tomorrow. You should make your way over to their Mountain View offices tomorrow at around 6 pm, as Google is hosting an event around Chrome OS, with presentations and an hour for mingling with the Chrome crew.

If you can make it, you cannot afford to miss it. The event registration page is here [Link is broken, see update below].

The event, called the Front End Engineering Open House, will hopefully provide new concrete details about exactly what Google is up to with Chrome OS. The product has been shadowy since it was announced, with rumor and speculation akin to an Apple event surrounding it.

Everyone, most especially Microsoft in Redmond, is terribly excited about what Google is building. Of course, Windows 7 was built to work with netbooks, but Google might be attacking that market with its own specialized operating system.

Who knows? We will have to wait until tomorrow. But, if you want to see a few screenshots of an early Chrome OS build, head over here.

H/T Atul.

[UPDATE]

Google has taken down the sign up page. We could not relocate it at the moment, but will update the link if the event is not canceled. For the moment, do not count on going, it would seem.


  • Twinkle Toes
    Shit, I should not have read this post.
    Now I won't be able to sleep. Exciting stuff.

    Chrome OS has a lot to prove and maybe Chrome OS has come to late.

    Reports on other sites (Techcrunch etc) suggest that consumers are fed up with their netbooks. The main problems are:

    1. Tiny form factor
    2. Low performance
    3. HOT HOT HOT overheating

    Microsoft is gaining mind share / momentum with Windows 7. The fact that Windows 7 runs smoothly on netbooks is a huge boost to them.

    And hey, we know that Windows works with a WIDE range of hardware right out of the box.
    How will chrome OS compare?

    We have also seen that consumers are demanding Windows XP for their netbooks. They prefer that old OS instead of the alien looking Linux version they get out of the box. Will people demand Windows when they see the alien looking Chrome OS?

    If I worked for Google, I would have called the new OS simply Google OS. That would have been a better name from a strict marketing stand point.

    But the main problem for Chrome OS could simply be that consumers just want a proper laptop and that netbooks are on the way out.
    A proper laptop will need a proper OS. That OS will be Windows 7.

    Can't wait till tomorrow.
  • Thomas
    I get a file not found Error for the registration page?
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