Google Chrome OS to Have Media Player to Challenge Microsoft

written by John Beckham on January 24th, 2010 | No Comments

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The lead engineer for Google’s Chrome Operating System told Ars Technica the emerging product and its Chrome Web browser sidekick will have a complete media player that approximates the functionality of Windows Media Player. Chrome OS boots up a netbook in a fraction of the time it takes to start today’s existing computers. With Google’s Chrome Web browser, Chrome OS loads Web applications in just a few more seconds. If Google can complete Chrome OS and get partners Acer, Asus, Hewlett-Packard and Lenovo, to make and sell Chrome OS machines, it will be quite the feat and quite the gauntlet for Microsoft,
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The Google Chrome Operating System isn’t expected to find
its way onto netbooks until the end of 2010, but it’s becoming increasingly
clear that it is aimed at disrupting the entrenched Microsoft Windows operating
system.
The lead Chrome engineer told Ars Technica the …