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February 27, 2011 08:23 pm GMT
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Burning Chrome
"A good player goes where the puck is. A great player goes where the puck is going to be""The Great OneGoogle made a few interesting announcements this week. First, Google Docs Viewer support for a sheaf of new document types, including Excel, Powerpoint, Photoshop and PostScript. Second, Chrome's new ability to run background apps that run seamlessly and invisibly behind the browser. Third, they released Google Cloud Connect, which lets Windows users sync Office documents to Google Docs. They also announced the Android 3.0 SDK - but despite the ongoing tablet hysteria, in the long run, the first three are more important.Little by little, iteration by iteration, the Chrome browser is quietly morphing into a full-fledged multitasking operating system in its own right. Oh, sure, technically it's actually running on another OS, but you increasingly never need to launch anything else. View and edit documents in Google Docs, watch and listen to HTML5 video and audio, communicate via Gmail and its Google Voice plugin, use Google Docs as a file system - and the line between "Chrome OS" and "Chrome on any other OS" suddenly grows very fine.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/70zGx2MdVJ8/
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