Google devs reveal Chrome OS will have media player

If you thought Chrome OS was all about the Chrome, here are some words of reassurance from Google's Matthew Papakipos, engineering director for the project. In a marathon interview with Ars Technica, he notes that Chrome OS will have its own integrated media player, and although the focus remains on being "lean and mean," it'll not neglect basic system functionality. Current thinking is to keep JPEG and other media file handlers within the tab structure, with native and web apps being melded seamlessly into the browser experience. That may all still change, of course, since development is also noted to be a good year away from a consumer release. Hit up the read link for more, much more, on the past and future of Google's featherweight OS.

[Mjefferson Posted Jan 22nd 2010 12:52PM]

Man goole is eating everybodies food these days what next google cellular ?

[bchiud Posted Jan 22nd 2010 6:10PM]

i sense an EU lawsuit...

[osomphane Posted Jan 25th 2010 2:56AM]

wonder if google will build in support for gaming somehow...

[alberth Posted Jan 25th 2010 8:29AM]

I keep seeing ChromeOS as another fastboot OS like Splashtop installed by Lenovo in their netbooks. I have it on an Ideapad S9e.

15 seconds from swtich on to the Web.
It has a music player, image viewer, chat and skype.
The browser looks like a simplifid version of Firefox and has flash support.
So, why would I need ChromeOS when Splashtop gives me all this and when I need it I can boot into XP.