Google will release a business version of the Chrome OS, the operating system for netbooks, in 2011.
At the RSA Conference 2010, held from 1 to 5 March in San Francisco (USA), an expert on software security Google Drury ( Drewry) reported that at the end of this year will be consumer version of Chrome OS, and is scheduled for 2011 release Business edition operating system, equipped with advanced management capabilities that are in demand in the corporate environment.
All assemblies Chrome OS focuses on a built-in protection against malicious code and other threats. Due to the openness of the project Chromium OS, on the basis of which is preparing Chrome OS, Google team constantly interacts with third-party developers, including on issues of system safety and security.
Netbooks with Chrome OS will ship with hardware processor, performed in accordance with industry specifications Trusted Platform Module (TPM). She describes the equipment used to store cryptographic keys to protect the information and that supports multifactor authentication.
Chrome OS, according to the announcement, is equipped with an automatic update of its own code and components, as well as the "sandbox", in which all Web applications. In addition, built-in mechanism for tracking malicious Web resources will warn the user about unsafe visiting infected sites.
Chrome-netbooks will be located under the battery a special switch that transforms the OS in "developer mode" when the system loses some of the functional safety, but allows you to "do anything" - for example, work directly with code.
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Chrome OS will run on specific equipment that meets the requirements of Google. Thus, the new Linux-system can only work on netbooks equipped with a solid state drive, module Wi-Fi (802.11n) and full-size keyboard. All Chrome OS applications are Web-based applications, the primary copy of user data stored on remote servers - in the "cloud". OS receives a media player similar to Windows Media Player, which lets you play in offline content, contained, for example, Flash, including MP3-music, video, JPEG-pictures and PDF-files. Promised support HTML5 and technology Adobe Flash.
While Google is preparing something grand, enthusiasts periodically put her own assembly Chrome OS - for example, with the support telematics platform nVidia Ion.