I’m not sure many large scale organisations will be quick to embrace it unless they can have a server component too which enables them to keep the data in-house.

Gary

There was an interesting moment during the Q & A. When asked about Silverlight the answer was they will have more to say about plugins and how binaries are installed in the future. When asked if they were working with Microsoft the answer was a terse “no comment.” After mentioning that Flash works and that they are committed to Flash (codecs etc) that was interesting – not sure what it really means. Perhaps some plugins will be available and some will not?

On privacy, they may have a better story to tell than most people think. But they don’t seem to understand the need to explain exactly what data they will store and how they will use it. Maybe the press briefing wasn’t the place for lots of detail. But the answer to those types of questions are important. Some information is here:

http://www.chromium.org/chromium-os/chromiumos-design-docs/security-overview

and here:

http://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/chromium-os/chromiumos-design-docs/user-accounts-and-management

The security features may be very appealing in an enterprise environment – especially if an enterprise version of Chrome OS connects to enterprise servers behind a firewall to store config and personal information instead of Google storing it on Google’s servers. Since it is all open source, that may not be too difficult for third parties to build without much help from Google.

Just because Chrome is Open Source doesn’t mean Google’s Privace Policy is open. What will they do with user data? In fact, what are they doing with it now, and how will this change after Chrome is rolled out? Will they make their policy open and scrutable to users and interested parties? What’s to stop government agencies from employing Google as an information gathering operative (remember, they have already had to turn over data in specific cases)?

Thanks, but no thanks, Mountain View!

I’m guessing this is handled by Google Gears, which lets you run web applications offline. Obviously the web app has to be written specifically to support this.

Tim