Microsoft surprised many with yesterday’s tablet OS announcement at Computex. As previously noted, the new platform, Windows Embedded Compact 7, will provide a "compartmentalized version of Windows 7 that can be embedded at the hardware level." It will provide multitouch capabilities, as well as a full desktop browser experience. The new OS will also have full support for Silverlight and Flash 10.1.
Link – http://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft039s-tablet-os-shown-off-on-video
Google announced today that Google Chrome OS will debut for free in autumn, and compete directly with Microsoft’s Windows operating system.
Google originally announced the operating system back in July, eventually making a beta available for testing, and will release it free for all users.
Link- http://www.neowin.net/news/google-chrome-os-to-launch-in-autumn
Recently, various outlets, such as TechCrunch, had reported that an early build of Chrome OS has been leaked into the wild. Well, I hate to tell you but those reports weren’t exactly accurate.
What leaked was in fact was an Alpha/Beta implementation of the Chromium browser that will be used in Chrome OS. As such, it was distributed in .deb package format, which is the very same format used by Debian-based Linux distributions, such as Ubuntu.
Link – http://blogs.zdnet.com/perlow/?p=11332&tag=content;perspective
