http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/google-adding-chromoting-remote-desktop-functionality-to-chome/ Engadget Comments for Google adding 'Chromoting' remote desktop functionality to Chome OS? http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/google-adding-chromoting-remote-desktop-functionality-to-chome/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/google-adding-chromoting-remote-desktop-functionality-to-chome/Jun 11th 2010 1:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/google-adding-chromoting-remote-desktop-functionality-to-chome/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/google-adding-chromoting-remote-desktop-functionality-to-chome/Jun 11th 2010 2:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/google-adding-chromoting-remote-desktop-functionality-to-chome/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/google-adding-chromoting-remote-desktop-functionality-to-chome/
bye bye Log Me In]]>Jun 11th 2010 2:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/google-adding-chromoting-remote-desktop-functionality-to-chome/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/google-adding-chromoting-remote-desktop-functionality-to-chome/
there is chrome OS and then there is chome OS..
which one to choose?]]>Jun 11th 2010 3:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/google-adding-chromoting-remote-desktop-functionality-to-chome/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/google-adding-chromoting-remote-desktop-functionality-to-chome/
WHOA! I DID NOT KNOW THEY WOULD CHANGE THE OS NAME TO CHOME OS.

WTH IS A CHOME???

/s]]>Jun 11th 2010 3:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/google-adding-chromoting-remote-desktop-functionality-to-chome/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/google-adding-chromoting-remote-desktop-functionality-to-chome/Jun 11th 2010 4:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/google-adding-chromoting-remote-desktop-functionality-to-chome/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/google-adding-chromoting-remote-desktop-functionality-to-chome/Jun 11th 2010 6:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/google-adding-chromoting-remote-desktop-functionality-to-chome/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/google-adding-chromoting-remote-desktop-functionality-to-chome/
I thought I was going to need to buy a windows netbook... guess not!

cant wait for more info on Chrome OS!]]>Jun 11th 2010 6:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/google-adding-chromoting-remote-desktop-functionality-to-chome/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/google-adding-chromoting-remote-desktop-functionality-to-chome/]]>Jun 11th 2010 1:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/google-adding-chromoting-remote-desktop-functionality-to-chome/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/google-adding-chromoting-remote-desktop-functionality-to-chome/Jun 11th 2010 1:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/google-adding-chromoting-remote-desktop-functionality-to-chome/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/google-adding-chromoting-remote-desktop-functionality-to-chome/Jun 11th 2010 2:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/google-adding-chromoting-remote-desktop-functionality-to-chome/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/google-adding-chromoting-remote-desktop-functionality-to-chome/
Here's a funky useless info:
In Turkish "Kačmarčík" literally means "The Runnies"]]>Jun 12th 2010 12:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/google-adding-chromoting-remote-desktop-functionality-to-chome/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/google-adding-chromoting-remote-desktop-functionality-to-chome/
likely they can emulate any environment for an app and then serve you the windows (a la citrix), basically enabling OS-free application launching. performance would be tied to their servers, your connection (bandwidth and latency), but could be a real winner as far as breadth of applications available and future opportunity.

will be interesting to see how it pans out and what it becomes (if anything).]]>Jun 11th 2010 2:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/google-adding-chromoting-remote-desktop-functionality-to-chome/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/google-adding-chromoting-remote-desktop-functionality-to-chome/
Isn't it more likely that they are just going to have a wine style program , except maybe easier to use?]]>Jun 11th 2010 2:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/google-adding-chromoting-remote-desktop-functionality-to-chome/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/google-adding-chromoting-remote-desktop-functionality-to-chome/
very possibly. i doubt they would go the licensing route when they could go the emulation route.

they would probably opt to serve up a bunch of applications that are either old and otherwise unusable or unobtainable and create a single platform where they could serve you apps built for windows, java, osx, mobile, all sorts of different linux packages; all without the end user knowing the difference.

that is, of course, pure conjecture based solely on the name of the feature and the mention of "legacy PC applications."

but it has a lot of potential power, effectively removing the need for specifically compiled code. a universal, server-side emulator, basically.]]>Jun 11th 2010 2:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/google-adding-chromoting-remote-desktop-functionality-to-chome/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/google-adding-chromoting-remote-desktop-functionality-to-chome/
as others are suggesting too, it may be a local machine app serving or desktop serving platform. where the apps that are ON your machine are served to your chromeOS device. perhaps the emulation will occur on the main machine you install the server on and can push apps installed there (be they windows or osx or linux) and then have the ability to add cross-OS apps as "chromote" packages?

lotsa possibilities.]]>Jun 11th 2010 2:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/google-adding-chromoting-remote-desktop-functionality-to-chome/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/google-adding-chromoting-remote-desktop-functionality-to-chome/
Also I'd love to install Chrome on my older PC that is losing it.]]>Jun 11th 2010 2:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/google-adding-chromoting-remote-desktop-functionality-to-chome/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/google-adding-chromoting-remote-desktop-functionality-to-chome/Jun 11th 2010 2:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/google-adding-chromoting-remote-desktop-functionality-to-chome/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/google-adding-chromoting-remote-desktop-functionality-to-chome/Only reason you would want to do this is that you Google fanboi much! huh? You have not even seen the OS and yet you are cheering for it, when it will not be bringing anything revolutionary except spy on everything you do.]]>Jun 11th 2010 4:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/google-adding-chromoting-remote-desktop-functionality-to-chome/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/google-adding-chromoting-remote-desktop-functionality-to-chome/Jun 11th 2010 2:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/google-adding-chromoting-remote-desktop-functionality-to-chome/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/google-adding-chromoting-remote-desktop-functionality-to-chome/CHOME OS FTW!!!]]>Jun 11th 2010 2:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/google-adding-chromoting-remote-desktop-functionality-to-chome/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/google-adding-chromoting-remote-desktop-functionality-to-chome/LOL]]>Jun 11th 2010 7:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/google-adding-chromoting-remote-desktop-functionality-to-chome/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/google-adding-chromoting-remote-desktop-functionality-to-chome/
What are they, Apple?]]>Jun 11th 2010 2:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/google-adding-chromoting-remote-desktop-functionality-to-chome/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/google-adding-chromoting-remote-desktop-functionality-to-chome/Jun 11th 2010 2:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/google-adding-chromoting-remote-desktop-functionality-to-chome/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/google-adding-chromoting-remote-desktop-functionality-to-chome/What are you, an idiot who replies to the first post on a page (not mine, see above) just to have your comment seen, when it's actually unrelated to the first post?

Go crawl in a hole. ]]>Jun 11th 2010 2:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/google-adding-chromoting-remote-desktop-functionality-to-chome/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/google-adding-chromoting-remote-desktop-functionality-to-chome/no one said it's new...

loser ]]>Jun 11th 2010 2:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/google-adding-chromoting-remote-desktop-functionality-to-chome/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/google-adding-chromoting-remote-desktop-functionality-to-chome/Jun 11th 2010 2:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/google-adding-chromoting-remote-desktop-functionality-to-chome/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/google-adding-chromoting-remote-desktop-functionality-to-chome/
Running all these apps written in native API's with compiled code is cramping my style. Get with the times man, Javascript powers airplanes.]]>Jun 11th 2010 2:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/google-adding-chromoting-remote-desktop-functionality-to-chome/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/google-adding-chromoting-remote-desktop-functionality-to-chome/Jun 11th 2010 2:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/google-adding-chromoting-remote-desktop-functionality-to-chome/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/google-adding-chromoting-remote-desktop-functionality-to-chome/
Now, you'll be able to access your more powerful notebook/desktop (& desktop apps), from an inexpensive ChromeOS device.

I really like where Google is going, with ChromeOS!]]>Jun 11th 2010 2:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/google-adding-chromoting-remote-desktop-functionality-to-chome/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/google-adding-chromoting-remote-desktop-functionality-to-chome/Jun 12th 2010 12:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/google-adding-chromoting-remote-desktop-functionality-to-chome/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/google-adding-chromoting-remote-desktop-functionality-to-chome/
Just put Android on netbooks/tablets already.]]>Jun 11th 2010 2:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/google-adding-chromoting-remote-desktop-functionality-to-chome/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/google-adding-chromoting-remote-desktop-functionality-to-chome/
The cool thing about ChromeOS is that you have a portable "desktop" (i.e. you can log into any ChromeOS device & your "desktop" environment will appear).

With Android, if you grab another device, you have to reinstall your apps, etc.]]>Jun 11th 2010 2:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/google-adding-chromoting-remote-desktop-functionality-to-chome/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/google-adding-chromoting-remote-desktop-functionality-to-chome/English class much? ]]>Jun 11th 2010 2:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/google-adding-chromoting-remote-desktop-functionality-to-chome/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/google-adding-chromoting-remote-desktop-functionality-to-chome/Jun 11th 2010 2:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/google-adding-chromoting-remote-desktop-functionality-to-chome/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/google-adding-chromoting-remote-desktop-functionality-to-chome/Jun 11th 2010 4:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/google-adding-chromoting-remote-desktop-functionality-to-chome/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/google-adding-chromoting-remote-desktop-functionality-to-chome/Jun 11th 2010 2:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/google-adding-chromoting-remote-desktop-functionality-to-chome/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/google-adding-chromoting-remote-desktop-functionality-to-chome/
Sorry but no, neither this remote desktop client, nor a remote client on the Ipad (or any other small device) allow to *run* any application, instead it is just a simple remote viewer.

For example, it is funny when some person said that they can *run* windows 7 on the ipad using Citrix, sorry but it is not true and there is a world of difference between to locally run (aka emulation) versus to remote view.

]]>Jun 11th 2010 2:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/google-adding-chromoting-remote-desktop-functionality-to-chome/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/google-adding-chromoting-remote-desktop-functionality-to-chome/Jun 11th 2010 3:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/google-adding-chromoting-remote-desktop-functionality-to-chome/http://www.engadget.com/2010/06/11/google-adding-chromoting-remote-desktop-functionality-to-chome/
Most of the time we use Remote Desktop/VNC, it's not the remote computer's desktop and interface we want. No, we want its programs/functionality, its data, and its power.

The ideal implementation would be a "remote shortcut", for lack of a better term. You launch it like a normal shortcut, and the application that opens runs almost like a locally installed one on the client, only there's a computer elsewhere on the network that's doing the actual heavy lifting.

It needs to go farther than that, however-the interface of the remote application must adapt itself to the client in question. Keyboard-and-mouse interfaces don't make sense on a pen-only or finger touch-only device, nor does the other way around, and screen sizes are also a major factor.

Perhaps Google has figured all this out already and plans to use such ideas to set "Chromoting" truly apart from other Remote Desktop/VNC solutions?

(Bonus points to them if it matches or surpasses StreamMyGame for-you guessed it-games. There are more than a few games and 3D applications I'd run on my notebook if not for the relatively lackluster GPU. I want a better way to harness my desktop's raw power without having to be in front of it all the time.)]]>Jun 13th 2010 1:45AM