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What's going to make folks ditch Windows or Mac OS X for Chrome? It can't just be Chrome's touted speed, can it? People upgrade from, say, a Ford Escort to a Mustang for the horsepower, from a Corolla to a Prius for the gas mileage. But Google's revelation, that Chrome will run on just a select list of netbooks to start, and that it would be aimed primarily at the secondary PC market, has us scratching our heads. A really sleek device like the mythic Apple tablet – or better yet, a free one – would do the trick. If there were some killer something, we could see it. A super-fast, Web-geared operating system is the smoothest road online to Google ads.īut the other why – 'Why should I use it?' – is a bit harder to pin down. The answer to the first why – 'Why is Google pushing this and investing so much?' – is pretty simple: Advertising. But after all was said about Chrome (and boy, there was a lot said in the hour and 20 minute-long presentation) we're left with one big question: Why? Now, to be fair, we're a year off – Google vice president of product management Sundar Pichai stressed as much before launching into the thinking behind Chrome.

But missing in all of that, at least to this observer, was a clear exposition of how Google plans to get users onboard – in essence, the hook.

Will you be using Chrome OS a year from now?Īt the Web-based operating system's coming-out party at Google headquarters on Thursday, Google presented its vision of Chrome, and a huge amount of information on what the browser and operating system are based on, how they run, and the safeguards in place to ensure they run well.

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