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戴尔证实在多款设备上测试谷歌Chrome OS性能
六 30th
北京时间6月26日消息，据媒体报道，戴尔消费者和中小型企业用户部门总裁史蒂芬·菲利斯(Stephen Felice)周四证实，该公司正在数款计算机产品上测试谷歌所开发Chrome OS操作系统的性能。
菲利斯称，戴尔正在数款笔记本和平板电脑原型机上测试Chrome OS的性能，“戴尔将于何时推出预装Chrome OS的设备，还要看测试结果及市场接受程度如何。”他还表示，Chrome OS是一款“性能良好”的操作系统。
作为全球第三大PC商，戴尔正试图减少对PC业务的依赖性，并大力进军IT服务、智能手机及平板电脑市场。戴尔大中华和南亚区总裁闵毅达(Amit Midha)本周早些时候表示，戴尔平板电脑Streak有望于今年7月在美国上市，年底前在中国市场销售。
闵毅达当时还透露，戴尔正就在其笔记本电脑上使用Chrome OS等事宜同后者展开商谈，“IT产业每隔两、三年，就会出现独特的技术创新。新技术层出不穷，我们希望走在新技术应用的前沿……因此在Chrome OS、Android或其他新技术上与外部厂商合作，无疑将有利于戴尔成为新技术应用的领先者。”
戴尔CEO迈克尔·戴尔(Michael Dell)周四表示，谷歌Chrome OS在戴尔产品上的运行效果良好。谷歌去年7月宣布，将推出基于其Chrome浏览器的PC操作系统，该产品基于Linux内核，所有PC厂商可免费使用。谷歌当时还表示，Chrome OS开发计划已经得到了惠普、宏碁及联想等主流PC厂商的支持。多数业界人士认为，Chrome OS将直接威胁微软Windows业务。
Windows替代方案 戴尔测试Chrome系统
六 30th
来自国外媒体的最新消息，PC大厂戴尔近日正在进行Google Chrome操作系统的PC测试，该消息称，戴尔作为全球第三大PC厂商，可能率先将Google Chrome操作系统作为微软桌面级Windows操作系统的替代产品提供为用户。戴尔消费者和中小企业业务部门总裁Stephen J. Felice之前的戴尔年度分析师会议上也曾经表示，戴尔正在进行上网本和平板电脑的Chrome操作系统测试，而戴尔方面也正在考察用户和市场对于Chrome操作系统的接受程度。
业内人士表示，戴尔作为传统的PC厂商，对于 PC的依赖程度超过了惠普和宏碁等竞争对手，为了实现多元化的发展，获得更多额利润增长点，戴尔目前正在跨入智能手机市场，并将技术和服务作为新的发展重点。不久前戴尔已经发布了采用Google Android操作系统的Streak平板电脑。
戴尔方面表示，Chrome操作系统基于开源的Linux内核，其计算机启动速度和互联网访问速度都非常的快，推出基于Chrome操作系统的设备在互联网访问上具有很大的优势。而Google方面很早就表示，将利用Chrome操作系统让更多的用户访问自己的网络，并使得Google的广告服务获得更好的效果。预计首个Chrome操作系统设备将在今年年底之前推出。
Stephen J. Felice表示，Chrome操作系统和Android操作系统一样都具有相当大的潜力，在PC平台上Chrome和Android终将获得重要的地位，尤其是高速上网和“永久在线”概念对于不少消费者还是颇具诱惑的。另外Chrome操作系统融入更多Google的网络搜索、浏览器和应用程序服务，Google希望凭借自己高度整合的产品对抗微软的Windows操作系统，尽管微软Windows操作系统目前仍然统治者全球90%以上的PC。
Chrome OS负责人转投Facebook
六 29th
Facebook今天宣布两项新的任命：前Chrome操作系统工程总监马修·帕巴基波斯（Matt Papakipos），前VMware公司副总裁兼桌面业务部门总经理乔斯林·戈德费恩（Jocelyn Goldfein），双双加盟Facebook。
此前马修·帕巴基波斯在Google负责Chrome OS开发，Chrome OS主要面向上网本，定于今年秋天上市。马修·帕巴基波斯的离职对于Chrome OS项目来说，似乎是不坏消息。
马修·帕巴基波斯在自己的微博上说：“现在Chrome OS与WebGL已经成型，是时候做些新事情了。我将去Facebook。”
2007年，马修·帕巴基波斯加入Google，当时Google收购他的公司Peakstream。
Chrome OS app store?
四 4th
Apps are an enormous growth market and a great way to make a buck or two. So now Google is ready to get into the game with its App Marketplace for Cloud based apps!
Google has just announced the launch of its app shop. The shop will target Google’s massive user base of 25.000.000 people, most of whom already use quite a few free Google Apps. Over 50 companies have partnered with Google by launching their enterprise applications at Google App Marketplace.
This opens a whole new world of possible profits for third party developers, as the app store only charges a $100 to join and then takes 20% of the sale of any app. Yep, that’s a lot better than adsense! 20% is still a lot of money, but it means you could make a whole lot of money. No wonder then that developers are falling over themselves to join up. Another clever move by Google.
The fact that it’s a cloud based app store is another nice move, as with the launch of Chrome OS Google would have a ready made app store and can really start kicking some Apple (app store) butt.
Google Chrome netbooks could cost more than Windows netbooks
三 17th
You would think that installing a zero cost operating system on a netbook would help keep the price low. But while there’s no licensing fee associated with Google’s upcoming Chrome OS, it turns out that netbooks running Chrome OS might actually be more expensive than the cheap, ubiquitous Windows netbooks flooding the market today.
That’s because Google has outlined firm hardware requirements for Chrome OS netbooks. While the company hasn’t publicly announced those requirements, we already know that Google expects Chrome OS netbooks to have “high resolution” displays and there’s a rumor going around that Google is working on its own netbook with a 64GB SSD and integrated 3G modem. And that kind of hardware doesn’t come cheap. And it’s possible those hardware requirements could drive up the cost of these netbooks to the point where it’s actually cheaper to get a Windows netbook — which is capable of running thousands of apps that won’t run on Chrome OS, and all the web-based apps that will be included in Chrome.
Parallels announces support for Google Chrome OS
三 17th
Parallels, a provider of cloud services automation and virtualisation software, has announced support for Google Chrome as a guest operating system running on Parallels Desktop 5 for Mac.
The software allows users, currently around 2 million of them, to run Windows, Linux and other operating systems side-by-side with Mac OS X. The ability to run Google Chrome OS on Parallels Desktop for Mac is being demonstrated this week at the OS X Business Park at CeBIT in Germany, which runs until Saturday.
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"There is already a huge amount of interest in Google’s new OS, even though it’s still just in beta, so we want to make sure our customers can try it out on their Macs without impacting their primary work environment on Mac OS X," said Kim Johnston, Vice President of Marketing for Consumer, Business and Online at Parallels.
"It’s important to us that we continue to innovate to meet our customers’ needs, giving them the ability to use the broadest range of applications possible, whether on Mac, Windows, Linux or Chrome operating systems."
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