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Chrome OS will be able to run PC apps

article published on 12 June, 2010

Until this week, the answer to whether the upcoming Chrome OS could run Windows apps was "no." The Chrome OS is completely in "the cloud," so all apps had to be accessed through the Chrome Web browser, and installed and "saved" to the Chrome OS. This week, however, Google software engineer Gary Kačmarčík has announced "Chromoting", a feature that will give users a chance ... [ read the full article ]

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LeeMathews
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_ 		12. June 2010 @ 20:16 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Your title is a little on the sensational side -- and a little on the wrong side.

Chrome isn't going to be able to run Windows apps. It's going to be able to handle RDP/vnc/remote terminal sessions -- like hundreds of existing thin client and remote computing solutions do.

And the details really aren't all that scant. It's in the Chromium source code right now if you want to check it out.
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Josipher
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_ 		12. June 2010 @ 22:30 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
well,then i guess i hope what "most people believe" is wrong
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MrPuffin
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_ 		12. June 2010 @ 23:21 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
i personally don't really like chrome os

like android on a phone awesome put it on a laptop eh
same with the chrome system it's just like a webbrowser on a computer and if you don't have 3g you will have to stay at home for wifi or a coffee shop

just doesn't seem general user friendly to me
more so the people who travel alot and always have a 3g data connection

i have chrome installed on vmware fusion And it's Just Eh to me nothing with an awe factor
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xnonsuchx
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_ 		13. June 2010 @ 22:07 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
Yeah, who wrote that totally misleading article title? Remote desktop IS NOT "run(ning) PC apps" in any sense. It's VIEWING them being run on another computer.
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oappi
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_ 		14. June 2010 @ 08:00 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
PC!=Windows so maybe it is not OS independent...

I wonder how much it would really cost google to add virtualmachine to chrome os and give same amout of space they give to gmail users? (of course ppl who want to use windows would have to buy a copy of windows)
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