Posted On: November 20, 2009

Posted By: Paul Ryan

For those who haven’t quite gotten their heads around what Google is up to with its new Chrome browser and future web-based operating system, the search giant just released this video explaining it all in very simple terms. This accompanied Google’s announcement today that it is releasing the Chromium OS open source project.

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4 Responses to “ Google Chrome OS explained in three-and-a-half minutes”
  1. Samantha Catherine Seymour-Eyles says:
    November 20, 2009 at 4:23 pm

    THis all sounds really good and at the risk of sounding ‘ancient’ but isn’t it also a concern of none of this stuff is stored on your computer. I mean it could actually get lost couldn’t it? or…..

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    Henry T Reply:
    December 2nd, 2009 at 3:05 pm

    I agree but then I realise I trust the data integrity & security & back-up processes of these guys way more than I trust my own ability to keep consistent and uncorrupted back up files. Not great but reality unfortunately!

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  2. Silvia Pfeiffer says:
    November 20, 2009 at 4:59 pm

    Maybe less so than if it was stored on your hard drive and you deleted it by accident, your hard drive crashed, or you lost your computer. When it’s stored in the cloud, your service provider has to look after all these things: security and backups etc. It’s just a problem that cloud service providers are not usually providing any guarantees on their service levels. Interestingly, their service level is still often better than what we put up with on our own computer.

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  3. Samantha Catherine Seymour-Eyles says:
    November 20, 2009 at 5:17 pm

    Thanks Silvia. I must step over the brink. What you say does make sense and I have had hard drives crash more than once.

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