Google Chrome OS Demo
Google Chrome OS Demo
Google Chrome OS is an open source operating system for people who spend most of their time on the web built around the core tenets of speed, simplicity and security. This is a demo video to give you a feel for the Google Chrome OS user experience.
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0 -> >> We want to first start by booting the machine.
So Kahn is actually--Kahn Lee, who is the
4.95 -> product manager on Chrome OS, is actually
going to press the button and do a cold reboot.
9.9 -> Let's go. So we really care about how fast
we can get the machine to boot. We want this
16.18 -> to be in a matter of seconds. And as you can
see, we are in the log-in screen, right? It
20.81 -> takes about seven seconds right now and we
are working very, very, very hard to make
25.47 -> this time shorter. It takes another three
seconds to log-in to your favorite application.
29.989 -> So we are going to switch to the machine from
which we have been projecting. In case you
34.12 -> didn't realize, we have been projecting from
a Chrome OS machine. So we are going to get
37.32 -> out of the full screen mode and we are within
Chrome OS. So two things before I get started
43.93 -> with the demo, first of all, hopefully, this
is not a surprise to you, but it looks like
49.129 -> Chrome, right? And so, internally, we joke
around, saying Chrome is Chrome OS, right,
56.19 -> and Chrome is the OS for all practical purposes.
Having said that, there are many, many interesting
61.239 -> changes in Chrome which I'm going to walk
you through to make it function like an operating
65 -> system. The advantage of doing it this way
is it's very familiar and intuitive to most
70.299 -> users. Almost everyone knows how to use a
browser; so we just want it to feel that way.
75.979 -> The second thing I want to say before I walk
through the UI is, at this stage of the project,
80.96 -> we are opening up the project to a year ahead
of release. So we are actually training through
86.159 -> the UI. I have to convince the team to stop
checking in code so that we can kind of be
90.909 -> able to freeze it for the demo, right? We
are checking in codes as we speak. So, a lot
96.159 -> of the UI is going to change. I'm not fully
sure how it will turn out, but one thing I
100.38 -> can guarantee is it won't be exactly like
what you're looking at today. Having said
104.24 -> that, there are many, many important concepts
here which we are very sure will carry over
108.409 -> to the final product. So, I'm going to focus
on covering those aspects for you first. So,
114.581 -> let's start with, it looks like Chrome but
on the top left hand side, you're seeing some
120.81 -> small tabs; we call this application tabs.
So, you can take any of your favorite applications.
127.14 -> In my case, it's Gmail and Calendar, et cetera;
but it could be Facebook, it could be YahooMail,
133.88 -> whatever users want. You can take any application
and, with one click, pin it to be your favorite
139.89 -> application. And once you do that, we call
these application tabs. We are working very
143.849 -> hard to make it possible for you to get to
your favorite applications instantly. So once
148.819 -> you choose something as an application tab,
they always stay in place. So, let's open
153.319 -> a few tabs. As you can see, Kahn is opening
a few tabs; but the application tabs on the
159.58 -> top left, the five of them, don't move at
all. So you can open, close, et cetera; they
163.909 -> always stay in place. So, we are working very
hard to make it easy for you to access your
168.62 -> favorite applications. In addition to this
method of accessing your applications, there
173.79 -> is--on the top left hand side, you have something
what we call as the App Menu. So, caveat,
180.33 -> the UI here is going to change but the concept
is we really want you to be able to discover
185.27 -> new applications as well as to access your
top applications. So let's go around and start
192.33 -> poking around the App menu. I'm noticing an
interesting app called Contacts, so let's
197.171 -> try that out. Something interesting happened.
Something popped from below--internally, we
203.2 -> call these as moles because they kind of come
from underground but we are going to call
207.13 -> them panels externally. So, panels are something--which
these are persistent lightweight windows which
214.489 -> you can have them around with you all the
time. They are persistent. So, for example,
218.36 -> let's click on a few tabs--they don't move
at all, right? And the panel stays; it's a
225.12 -> persistent window. There are several interesting
use cases for it. You can minimize them and
229.98 -> make them go away and you can bring them back.
We are going to work hard to make sure we
234.11 -> can automatically manage panels for users.
So, this is a chat window. So, Khan is chatting
239.31 -> with David, one of the engineers on the team,
and, hopefully, David says hi back. There
245.11 -> you go. So Buddy List and Chat is a great
example of how you would use a panel. Let's
250.36 -> see one of the use cases for panels right
there. So, let's poke around; there's Notepad.
254.9 -> So let's click on Notepad as an example. So,
one more panel--the interesting thing about
259.76 -> Chrome OS is, I mentioned all data is in the
cloud. So what does that mean? So, Khan is
264.601 -> going to type something here and maybe we
should go to Google doc and open this notepad
271.05 -> file. You can see it's right there in the
cloud. All data in Chrome OS is in the cloud.
277.58 -> So, as a model, anything you put on the machine
is instantly available to you from anywhere
281.73 -> so--which is something we are very, very excited
about. Let me show one more use case for panels.
287.7 -> Let's type YouTube in the Chrome Omnibox.
Recently, we launched this very cool music
293.61 -> feature called Music OneBox by which you can
type in names of songs and play it right off
297.88 -> the Google search page. So let's click on
Beautiful Day. You can see a panel popped
304.06 -> up and it plays right in place. It's a persistent
window; you can leave it there, you can minimize
309.33 -> it and keep working, right? You can use this
to put streaming music from the Web. So these
313.64 -> are interesting examples of how we expect
people to use panels. Before we get caught
318.1 -> up in the song, so, let's wrap it up. If you
go to the-—well, let's go poke around at
326.892 -> the app menu once more. So, what I like about
Netbooks is, today, I traveled and I go on
333.8 -> vacation and it's tough to carry my DVD player,
my computer, my book reader, et cetera. The
340.12 -> great thing about Netbooks is these are ultra-light
and mobile devices and once battery times
345.65 -> get much better, you can carry them around
with you as general purpose devices. So, we
349.82 -> actually expect these to be great entertainment
devices. People should be able to watch videos,
354.49 -> play music, play games, books, et cetera.
So let's see how the experience looks like.
359.03 -> So I'm an avid chess player so I have this
chess game which I use on my Chrome OS machine
364.9 -> and you can now--with just a flash--double-click,
okay. So Khan is playing the chess game. You
376.99 -> can see how it's very easy and visual and
you can enter--you can make it full screen
381.35 -> more and take over the screen. So these are
good examples of what we expect people to
385.21 -> do with these machines. In fact, another good
example of what you can do is read books.
391.74 -> So, for example, we are working hard on this
experience and we have ways to go, but if
395.59 -> you look at Google Books, for example, here
is "Alice in Wonderland." So you can have
402.56 -> it on your netbook in a full screen mode and
you can read conveniently. It's--you know,
407.31 -> these are scanned books which are available,
and I can totally imagine reading it to my
410.92 -> daughter, you know, carrying a netbook around
with me. So it's very, very compelling. So
416.62 -> we are really interested in solving all these
interesting user experiences for people. One
421.31 -> of the things is I spend all my time in one
Chrome window, but it's very common for users
427.17 -> to have multiple sets of windows. So we want
to walk you through that experience. For example,
431.92 -> it's the time of the year in which I'm trying
to get all my gift shopping done before holidays
435.46 -> come around, right? So I have a set of windows
with Amazon, eBay, et cetera, so I can easily
440.66 -> switch over to the other windows. And so I
have Amazon and eBay; it's a completely different
445.92 -> Chrome instance for me. And I even have YouTube.
I want to take the chance to show that YouTube
451.31 -> works and Flash works on the machine, so let's
click on a video and make sure it works. So
457.81 -> as you can see, YouTube works and Flash works.
I'll just move to another window. Let's go
463.65 -> back to the original window; you can move
back and forth. In fact, you can go to the
468.18 -> "All View" mode and you can see all the windows
which are open on your system. The UI here
473.571 -> is going to change a little bit, but you can
imagine, I can open a new Chrome window, right?
478.22 -> And I can drag and drop a tab from one Chrome
window to another Chrome window. It's very
483.31 -> simple, very intuitive and just works. So,
this is the core part of the user experience.
493.64 -> Having said that, one of the things we realized
is people are going buy these netbooks, they're
498.4 -> going to go home and do a lot of common things
they are used to doing with computers. So
503.77 -> we actually have a long list of all these
use cases and we are working hard to make
507.91 -> sure it works seamlessly for users. Let me
walk through a couple of examples. Most people
512.64 -> plug in their cameras, right? They may plug
in a USB drive. And so what happens if we
518.99 -> plug in a USB drive? You can imagine the set-up
concept, but you can imagine Chrome opens
525.38 -> a tab and shows you what's in the content
of a camera or a USB drive and you can see
529.76 -> the files that are on the machine. It turns
out in this USB drive, there are Excel files.
534.39 -> We don't have Microsoft Excel on this machine.
So what happens if we click Excel file. Let's
539.08 -> give it a shot. It turns out Microsoft office
launched a killer app for Chrome OS. They've
545.62 -> been working very, very hard to do this. The
point here is Chrome OS does not have a propriety
552.55 -> app framework. It's a completely open app
framework. It's the Web; so anybody who puts
557.67 -> up a URL, anybody who writes an application
that works on the Web and in a browser is
562.98 -> writing an application for Chrome OS. It's
something we are very, very excited by. And,
567.79 -> for the record, I'm an avid Google Spreadsheets
user--just a disclaimer. So, there are few
573.5 -> other use cases people can do. Here are some
interesting use case we can demonstrate. So
579.39 -> Khan is going to take a picture; in fact,
he has one of the new droids and it has a
584.44 -> five mega pixel camera so it's pretty cool.
So, hopefully, we are going to get a good
588.61 -> picture out of it and he's going to take the
picture, and let's see what happens if you
593.67 -> plug this in your Chrome OS machine. So you
can see Chrome OS detects the camera as a
609.06 -> storage device, that the phone is a storage
device. It can pull the picture right there.
613.83 -> So he's clicking on the picture. And here
you go; I can see Arlington squarely in the
618.78 -> center of the picture. So it turns out there
is a video on the phone as well. So let's
624.5 -> try and see what happens if you click the
video. The video plays right in place in the
631.43 -> panel we talked about. So the point here is
we really want it to be possible for all these
637.8 -> seamless use cases to--I mean, for all these
use cases for uses to be seamless. We just
642.87 -> want computers to be delightful and works.
So we are working very hard to make that possible.
647.46 -> One final example I just want to give is people
run in to many, many different types of files,
653.27 -> right, when they use a computer. They need
to be able to use those files. For example,
657.79 -> let's go to one of my favorite Web sites--I
go there pretty often--the IRS.gov. And let's
662.21 -> go around and click on a PDF file, right?
So what happens if you click on a PDF file?
666.62 -> It works. It's instant. It's in the browser,
right? So, that's the underlying theme of
671.16 -> what we are trying to accomplish: speed, simplicity
and security. So I'm going to take a step...
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