At the recent Web 2.0 summit in San Francisco Goolge VP of Product Management Sundar Pichai gave some more hints as to what the Google Chrome OS would hold and how it would give new benefits to consumers.
Essentially the key thing to take away is that the majority of the user interactions will take place with the internet at the heart. And this appears to include the installation of software and applications. Perhaps we’re looking at an Adobe Air type approach where applications run in a web-time environnment and hence are extremely portable across multiple platforms (browser based, on Windows, Macs and Linux).
“Web apps are our core platform. You write something that works on the browser, it works on Chrome OS. We describe Chrome OS as Chrome on top of Linux, with a new windowing system. As a user, you don’t install software, you don’t maintain software.”
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