Official Google Blog: Releasing the Chromium OS open source project.

Google is now Microsoft in the past, when Microsoft was selling DOS to IBM.

I just watch few Chrome OS documents and videos, it is a larger plan then I thought before. If it happen in the way which Google is planning, there is a Web 3.0 revolution that ever important then the PC revolution.

PC will be a historical term, like Apple II.

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I watch also IE9 video yesterday, they are all doing the same – faster browser, faster Javscript, use GPU to speed up…etc, etc. However, IE9 will never beat Chrome OS as there are no anything to slow it down, in theory.

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DOS – Disk operating system,  Chrome OS – Web operating system.

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Microsoft is doing this – “keep your laptop/notebook connected to their cloud, and the company network —- in order to deadly control them”

You can find these sign in Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2.
BitLocker, branchcache, group policy forced auto VPN connection…etc,etc

Fat OS, fat server, deep connection, tight control.
I bet half of system administrators will love these new feature.
(not the end user, as they cannot

Google is doing in another way – “nothing but a powered stateless workstation — you cannot do too much offline”

Lightweight browser, internet depending, open source.
Not all company will like it, (but they will), but many heavy Internet and mobile user will.

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How about NativeClient ?

Think about it, something like Photoshop, AutoCAD, graphical designer, movie editing….etc

They might not do very well in HTML5 then that in PC.

But if there is a plug-in system which allow you to run full featured application. They don’t read/write file from harddisk, but on WebDAV folders.

Chrome OS answer the question which people ask when Google release NativeClient — why not just download the exe and execute?  Why reinvent ActiveX? Because you won’t and not allowed on Chrome OS.

I just there will even some “Extension based on NativeClient”

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Back to Chrome OS, it take away unsuccessfully, and optimize it.

7 SECONDS from power on and boot to browser.

Why “HIBERNATE” !??  Why “SLEEP”?  to cut 7 seconds into 0.5 

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Sandbox – application partition — everybody know about it, if they have a iPhone…..Apple guy call it Jail.

File system encrypted by default – very reasonable for mobile devices .

They try to LIMIT supported hardware!!!!
Reasonable to keep limited number of driver support and stupid bad hardware problems.

Actually, if it run in google way, half of hardware building company will die.
Because nobody will buy a faster GPU card, cooler, super CPU, larger harddisk…. they will subscribe storage online.

Google Application Store!!

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Read more:

http://randle.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/google-chrome-os-revealed/

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續上次提過的 Windows Live Folders

等咗一段空白期時間，最近 Windows Live Folders Team 開始正式 beta 測試。
不過呢，佢地今次改咗個無特色的名字。而且靜靜地強調 Web 2.0 而加上 ^Beta 字樣。

可惜嘅係 “we’re excited to introduce SkyDrive in two additional regions: UK and India.” 我無份玩呀～

中文化相信已經做了，我可以有得 signup，佢話我可以睇到其他人 share 的 files，而不能擁有自己的 SkyDrive。

到底佢係 SkyDrive 定係 ShyDrive，咁怕見人嘅？

無份試，咁就睇下佢寫有咩新功能

• An upgraded look and feel — new graphics to go along with your new features!
  • 改左又點？又唔似 Apple 咁靚，又唔會變做 Google 咁實用
• “Also on SkyDrive” — easily get back to the SkyDrives you’ve recently visited
  • 即係 history，bookmark?
• Thumbnail images — we heard you loud and clear, and now you can see thumbnails of your image files
  • 一般 gallary，甚至 OpenSource CMS 都有嘅功能……
• Drag and drop your files — sick of our five-at-a-time upload limit? Drag and drop your files right onto your SkyDrive
  • 如果依一點都做唔到，咁 Microsoft 就真係揾來耍自己啦
• Embed your stuff anywhere — with just a few clicks, post your files and folders anywhere you can post html
  • 唔明…….

咁到底有無得 search(自己同識得嘅人) ? RSS subscription？或者 capacity？ Broadwidth？ traffic control？

唔知，有人試到嘅話唔該話聲比我知啦。

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LiveSide – News blog : Windows Live Folders beta – more info 江湖傳聞，Microsoft會推出 Windows Life Folders。由於去唔到官網，只能由其他人的 blog 得知少少資料。 250MB，有 private, friends, public 三種 access right。 第一眼睇落好唔錯，正正常常咁，而已一次過 share file 比 files 好過 MSN Live 的 share folder，不過我們是不是拿錯了比較的對像？ Yahoo 自從中世紀開始，就已經有 yahoo briefcase 服務，可以到今日為止，也只有 25MB 空間(已經很多年了，當年 yahoo mail 好像還只有 10MB)。

網上存取檔案

利用 Yahoo! 公事包在任何地方存取你的檔案。 透過Yahoo! 公事包，你可以更輕鬆管理你的檔案。以後無需天天攜帶 Floppy 返工返學。更可跟朋友同事分享文件！

相信使用者很少，也很久沒有人更新過，否則不可能出現 floppy 這個奇怪的字眼。 我已經轉用 USB Flash 和 CD/DVD-RW 很多年了。 網絡上也出現過不少 free/paid web-based 的 network drive，也有出現過付帶 client application 的公司，香港本地公司我也有試用過(當年還是用 56K modem 上網)；可是大部份都在科網期爆破了。現在比較流行的是似 RapidShare 和 easy-share 一類限速，限線，倒數，防 robot 的單一檔案 server。 Live Folder 有甚麼特色呢？除了和 MS Life 整合性比較高之外，沒有甚或優點。網絡其實上還有類似的 web-storage 寄存。以我在其他人的 blog 看到的簡單，Live Folder 根本還比不上它們。

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