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Google provides more details of Chrome OS

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One of the most anticipated releases of the year is Google Chrome OS and Google have provided a few more tantalizing details of what to expect.

The Google Chrome Press Conference in San Francisco last week revealed some interesting features including a Chrome OS Web Store where users will be able to download software and applications.

Netbooks running Chrome OS will also be available early next year from manufacturers Acer and Samsung.

Larry Magid of Mercury News saw the OS in action at the conference and reports that users can expect super quick installation times based on your Google account info that will put Windows and even OS X to shame:

When you first get the machine, you enter your Google account information, which is all the operating system needs to configure your machine. And if you change machines or use someone else’s, you can log on with your credentials and have immediate access to your data, which is stored in the “cloud” on Google servers.

The other good news is that some applications, including Google Docs and Spreadsheets and even some games, will also run when the machine is not connected to the net and then sync data when you reconnect.

Best of all, Google Chrome OS will be completely free. All we need now is an official release date but judging by the increasing amount of information Google are teasing us with, it looks imminent with early 2011 a good bet. Until then, don’t forget to check out our video review of the source code version of Google OS.

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