Google Caves And Makes ChromeOS Look More Like Windows And Mac (GOOG, MSFT)
Google has finally bent to the conventions established over the last 20 years of operating system design and updated ChromeOS to look more like Windows and the Mac, complete with a desktop and icons and a taskbar for applications. ChromeOS was designed for cheap laptop computers called Chromebooks, and one most interesting points was the design: instead of working like a regular operating system, it was basically a version of Google's Chrome browser that took up the entire screen. All apps ran inside the browser in tabs. there was no desktop, no visible file system -- none of the stuff... Read full post here