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Chrome OS: Move Along, Nothing to See Here (Yet)

Friday, November 20, 2009

So I took the plunge and installed Chrome OS on a virtual machine on my Windows 7 laptop. I used Sun’s free VirtualBox virtualization software and the downloadable version of Chrome OS hosted by Gdgt. Actually, when I used the Gdgt download in the form of a VirtualBox image, I couldn’t get it to boot–so [...]

5Words: Wanna Try Out Chrome OS?

Friday, November 20, 2009

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How to try Chrome OS. Randall Kennedy derides Chrome OS. Better Google News for smartphones. Better Techmeme for smartphones, too. Refinements for Google Search Options. New version of cool PogoPlug. Nook sold out for holidays. Sony building its own iTunes. Apple’s Magic Mouse in Windows. YouTube bans TV box access. ________________________ Like 5Words? Subscribe via RSS.

Chrome OS: What We Know and Don’t Know

Thursday, November 19, 2009

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Four months ago, Google announced it was working on an operating system for netbooks called Chrome OS. Today, at a press event at the Googleplex which I attended, the company demonstrated it in public for the first time and provided more details about its plans. Nothing Google had to say came as a great revelation–it largely [...]

Google Reveals Chrome OS

Thursday, November 19, 2009

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I’m at the Googleplex this morning, where Google is showing off Chrome OS for the first time. More details to come, but I’m tweeting the news fast and furious at the moment–follow me at Twitter to see the news as fast as I learn it.

Reminder: Take Our Windows 7 Survey

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

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Many thanks to everyone who’s taken a few minutes and participated in our satisfaction survey for Windows 7 users. Hundreds of you have done so already–but we could use some more responses, especially from folks who have bought new PCs with the OS pre-installed. Click here to take the survey if you haven’t already–thanks in [...]

Chrome OS: The Great Unveiling

Wednesday, November 18, 2009

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On Thursday morning, Google is holding a press event that sounds like it’ll be the closest thing to an official introduction that the company’s Chrome OS for netbooks has gotten to date: While this will be more of a technical announcement, we will be showing a few demos that will definitely be of interest to you [...]

The Myth of Platform-Independent Applications

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

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At Microsoft’s Professional Developer Conference in Los Angeles this morning, Seesmic announced that its Seesmic Desktop, a popular tool among Twitter power users, is coming to Windows. Finally! Um, hasn’t Seemsic run on Windows all along? Well, yes, but that’s because it’ s written in Adobe AIR, an application platform that lets programmers write Flash applications [...]

Two More Weeks With Windows 7

Monday, November 16, 2009

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It’s been a couple of weeks since I reported on Project Switchback, my experiment in using an ASUS UL30A-X5 thin-and-light notebook as my primary computer after a long period in which I was more Mac person than Windows person. How are things going? Pretty well. The Asus has continued to perform well–it’s the best $675 investment [...]

Using Windows 7? Take Our Survey

Monday, November 16, 2009

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We’re still very, very early in the Windows 7 era: The operating system only went on sale as an upgrade and on new PCs on October 22nd. But it’s not too soon to check in with people who pounced on Windows 7 at the first opportunity–after all, their experiences will help everyone else decide whether [...]

Chrome OS: Imminent?

Friday, November 13, 2009

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TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington is reporting that Google plans to release an early version of its Chrome OS netbook operating system next week. It’s presumably a very early version, since Google says that machines running Chrome OS won’t arrive until the second half of next year. Google says that Chrome OS will be Linux-based, Web-centric, and designed [...]

Hackintosh Trouble?

Monday, November 2, 2009

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Apple may be suing Mac clone merchant Psystar, but its policy towards individuals who install OS X on non-Apple hardware to create “Hackintoshes” seems to have been to ignore them rather than to frustrate them. That may be about to change. According to OS X Daily, Apple’s upcoming OS X 10.6.2 update prevents Snow Leopard from [...]

Project Switchback: Moving from a Mac to Windows 7

Monday, November 2, 2009

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Back in 2004, I was shopping for a new laptop at CompUSA. I took a wrong turn into the store’s tiny Apple section and had an epiphany: Why not buy a Mac? (I’d been a Mac user in the 1980s, and still used them on the job to do page layouts, but every computer I’d [...]

Microsoft Sells Crud-Free PCs

Wednesday, October 28, 2009

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Whenever anybody asks me for my take on Windows 7, I share my largely positive reaction, but am careful to insert a note of necessary gloom: If PC manufacturers lard up Windows 7 machines with adware, demoware, and various other forms of unwantedware, they’re going to ruin a good thing. Turns out Microsoft apparently has the [...]

Is Windows Overpriced?

Tuesday, October 27, 2009

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Robert X. Cringely–the one who doesn’t write for InfoWorld anymore, not the one who still does–has a post up called “Why Windows 7 Costs So Much.” The piece is not without its obvious flaws–most notably, he keeps saying Apple’s Snow Leopard is $49, when it’s really $29–but it proposes an interesting theory: that Microsoft intentionally [...]

Windows 7 and Family Guy: The Arranged Marriage is Over

Monday, October 26, 2009

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Remember that upcoming FOX special starring Seth McFarlane, the creator of Family Guy–the one sponsored entirely by Windows 7, with the operating system worked into the show itself? Musing about it a couple of weeks ago, I said “there seems to be a basic cognitive dissonance at work when a supposedly take-no-prisoners, slay-all-sacred-cows kinda sensibility [...]

5Words: Windows 7 is Widely Beloved

Monday, October 26, 2009

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27 reviews of Windows 7. Windows 7 upgrade questions answered. Pixi: $100, Sprint, November 15th. Storm 2: Verizon, October 28th. Apple tablet: SIM tray leak!!! Netflix comes to the PS3. Two guys dressed as iPhones. eBooks: sparking interest in libraries. TomTom iPhone kit finally available. This watch is a BlackBerry.. White House goes open source. Yahoo Mail is being temperamental. ________________________ Like 5Words? Subscribe via RSS.