Google's a radical change to Chrome OS

As far back that was announced Chrome OS , an operating system that Google tried to give full prominence to the site, an item of information and technology where the giant not only bases its activities, but we have seen that little little is grabbing more and more, and today we can say that will, if not already, the absolute protagonist.

The launch of Chrome OS was perhaps precipitate, or failed to give Google the right promotion, something that has happened with other great products. It therefore seems that now the Mountain View will try again. Recently, we knew that Google was preparing new Chromebooks, the workhorses that claim to be the ultimate experience in the system, and the list of manufacturers were added Sony Vaio with its prestigious brand and ACER. We now know that the next version of Chrome OS has also been completely redesigned.

The redesign is such that the user no longer has the feeling of being in a browser Chrome "supervitaminado" but in a sufficiently close to Windows, with a toolbar that has its quicklaunch section to launch applications and also with a system tray to view the status of these and other aspects of Chrome OS.

What does this mean? It involves breaking with the simplicity, at least with that simplicity that promoted Google, talking about complex interfaces were not necessary to have a fully functional operating system. And it is with that word, functional, with which Google intends to push this new Chrome OS. Current versions of the system are fairly straightforward, and although they are perfectly usable, that simplicity may paradoxically away some of its potential users, who prefer to sacrifice the win for interface functionality.

The developer version of Chrome OS, with such changes as may be downloaded, and interface updates focus on Aura, the motor / window manager that surrounds the entire system, and offer the architect of its surroundings. However, although Aura is the protagonist in this new Chrome, we must not leave out important new features such as enhanced support for multiple monitors or the inclusion of a bunch of new formats that can be consumed directly from the system, such as. tar,. gz or. bzip2.