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Google's Chrome OS to include a media player
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| Google has confirmed that its upcoming
| lightweight, browser-centric Chrome OS
| operating system will include a built-in
| media player. In an interview with
| ArsTechnica, Matthew Papakipos, the
| engineering director for the Chrome OS
| project, says that the developers are
| currently working on "integrating a whole
| media player into Chrome and into Chrome
| OS". The Chrome browser, for example,
| already includes support for Flash and HTML5
| audio and video playback, however, users
| also need to be able to "play JPEGs and MP3s
| and PDFs and all that stuff when you're off
| line" said Papakipos.
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http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Google-s-Chrome-OS-to-include-a-media-player-911475.html
Google's Chrome OS: Tomorrow's Desktop Today?
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| Sometime in 2010, Google will release Chrome
| OS, its take on a netbook operating system.
| It will be far more than just that though.
| It's an entirely new take on the desktop
| operating system. While a final version is
| still months away from release there's
| already enough of Chrome available that we
| can begin to see what it's going to look
| like.
|
| [...]
|
| You also won't need to be on the Internet to
| view or play some media files. We already
| know that Chrome OS will be able to read
| Adobe PDF files and play Adobe Flash videos.
| Now, we know that Google is integrating a
| media player into Chrome OS that will play
| at least MP3 music files. It will surely
| play other media file types as well, but
| exactly what those will be we don't know
| yet. We do know that you won't need to be on
| the Internet to play them. So, for example,
| if you have an MP4 movie on a USB stick,
| you'll be able to watch it even if you're
| not online. Again, the intent isn't to have
| you click on a movie file and have a media
| player pop-up to play it. Instead, the movie
| will start playing in a browser window.
| Chrome OS is all about integrating
| everything into the Web browser experience.
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http://www.itworld.com/operating-systems/93787/googles-chrome-os-tomorrows-desktop-today
Web apps vs desktop apps
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| Things to watch:
|
| * Google Native Client
| * Google Chrome OS
| * HTML5
|
| Iâm sure there will be a lot of exciting events this year. Google
| is planning to release a simple OS centered around web browsing and
| web apps. It is intended for netbooks, but will surely impact the web
| platform, by proving that the shift towards the web apps is already
| happening today.
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http://valums.com/web-apps/
Platform Independent
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| The sugar on top comes through with web applications. No matter what platform
| I am running there are many online application suites that promise to bring us
| OS independent applications. Google and Microsoft are both working on this, and
| in the future we can expect
| more of it. What does this mean?
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http://elevenislouder.blogspot.com/2010/01/platform-independent.html
Recent:
Google talks Chrome OS, HTML5, and the future of software
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| I had done my best to sort out the why's
| and wherefore's of Google's first consumer
| OS effort in my initial launch coverage but
| I still had many questions about the past,
| present, and future of the project.
|
| [...]
|
| EB: The way that we've thought about this
| for a while is if you read the Chrome OS
| blog post that we did in July, and you read
| the Chrome browser blog post that we did in
| September in 2008, they're very similar.
| They're essentially the same thing. And the
| reason is because when we were building
| Chrome the browser, we realized that
| everyone is spending their time online. So
| essentially we were trying to build
| something that mimics this operating system
| feelâthere's a task manager in Chrome, and
| that was one of the early additions to
| Chrome.
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http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2010/01/chrome-os-interview-1.ars
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