Watched the Google announcement yesterday?  Intrigued?  Well thanks to gdgt you can now download a VMware or VirtualBox Image of the Developer Preview of Chrome OS.  You must have an account on gdgt to get it, but once you sign on it’s a 331 MB download away.  Since this is a early version, expect bumps.  Gear Diary can’t be held responsible if it doesn’t work.  Thanks goes to Lifehacker for posting about this.  Go here to get the VM and try it out!

As was mentioned here yesterday, today was the  big developer and press Google Chrome OS event.  Today was the day Google pulled back the curtain and let the blogsphere know about the mystery that is the new Chrome OS platform.

Early adopters and developers alike can grab a copy of the  source code today to play with.  It has been released as open source.  So, if you really really wanted,  you could build your own Chrome OS.  Those of us who don’t have those mad skillz we will have to wait until late 2010.  I am sensing it will be a Google Chrome OS Christmas next year.

So what is Chrome OS really?  Well, from what was said and shown at the event, this isnt your mother’s operating system. Continue Reading

Late last night Google dropped the bomb that many people have been expecting for quite some time. For years we’ve all been talking about how the web browser could eventually become the operating system. I first remember hearing this discussed when Netscape rose up to take on Microsoft’s dominant Internet Explorer. Until now though the thought of browser as OS has largely remained a distant but ever more believable dream. The dream may become reality if Google has their way.

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Google today will release a beta of their  open source web browser named Google Chrome which is based partly on the Webkit open source web engine. Some online sites received early notice of this release in the form of a comic book explaining the browser details. This set the blogosphere ablaze over the slow technology holiday weekend. Several sites have already pronounced Google Chrome a “Windows Killer” due to their belief that running applications in a browser is the wave of the future and if someone were to release a better browser – that the need for Microsoft Windows could be reduced or eliminated. The first beta release of Google Chrome will be available for Windows with later releases available for Mac and Linux and presumably mobile platforms.

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