Google Announced Chrome Operating System

While the entertainment industry is still talking about Michael Jackson’s memorial, the tech world is rocked with the latest announcement made by Google:

“…today, we’re announcing a new project that’s a natural extension of Google Chrome — the Google Chrome Operating System. It’s our attempt to re-think what operating systems should be.”

Google Chrome OS is aimed at people who spend most of their time on the web and will initially be targeted at netbooks. They said that it will be extremely lightweight and fast just like the Chrome web browser, and it will be very secure.

As expected, Google Chrome OS will utilize the Linux kernel with a new windowing system on top of it.

With Google’s plan to release Chrome OS as open source software, should we be happy or sad?

How about you our dear readers? Share with us your thoughts via comment. By the way, you can read the full release announcement HERE (googleblog)

Google updates some Apps functions

Google has made a few updates to its various apps services including one that lets users within the organisation share templates with each other.

Google already had a template gallery for Google Docs where people can share templates such as presentation designs and spreadsheets. But now Premier and Education edition users can share templates privately only with other people in the domain. Co-workers can sort, use and rate the templates.

 Apps Gmail users have also gotten an improvement to the Contacts list search function. Now, when Apps users search in Contacts in Gmail, they’ll also receive results from their company’s entire global address list, in addition to people that they’ve added to the list and people they’ve previously e-mailed.

Google also released a user profile API (application programming interface) that lets administrators retrieve and update profile information for all users on the company domain. The tool is aimed at helping administrators maintain a detailed global address list in Google Apps. The API is only available to Google Apps Premier Edition users. 

Other updates to Gmail for business users include new ways to organise labels, which users place on messages to tag them. Users can now hide the labels that are not used frequently to “more ” link. They can do that that by just dragging and dropping to “more” link. Users can now drag the messages into labels and labels onto messages inorder to tag them. Label updates are available to all Gmail users.

Google updates Gmail labels. ( Drag and Drop )

Now you can organise your messages in Gmail on fly. Google has updated Gmail to organise labels, which users place on messages to tag them.
Users can now hide the labels that are not used frequently to “more ” link rather than in the main list. They can do that that by just dragging and dropping the labels to “more” link. Users can now drag the messages into labels and labels onto messages inorder to tag them.