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Chrome OS: screenshots

Summary: What does a browser-based operating system look like? Here's a quick tour of Google's preliminary Chrome OS release.

Rupert Goodwins

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You log into Chrome OS (or 'Chromium OS' to give it its pre-supported name) with just your username, which is your Google Account, and your password. Something stronger may be advisable if this is to be the one barrier between the world and your cloud.

 

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Rupert started off as a nerdy lad expecting to be an electronics engineer, but having tried it for a while discovered that journalism was more fun. He ended up on PC Magazine in the early '90s, before that evolved into ZDNet UK - and Rupert evolved with them into an online journalist.

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  • Modern life...

    Really interesting to see the future become present. Would however suggest a little more Blur to preserve your privacy.
    Joffy-2d465
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