{"id":12819,"date":"2010-06-02T19:21:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-02T17:21:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-06-02T19:21:00","modified_gmt":"2010-06-02T17:21:00","slug":"free-chrome-os-here-in-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/12819-free-chrome-os-here-in-2010.html","title":{"rendered":"Free Chrome OS here in 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We are working on bringing the device later this fall,&#8221; said Google vice president of product management Sundar Pichai at CompuTex Taipei, Asia&#8217;s biggest IT trade show.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s something which we are very excited by&#8230; We expect it to reach millions of users on day one,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The open source operating system is based on the Chrome browser, which is designed to work exclusively with web applications.<\/p>\n<p>More than 70 million people use the Chrome browser, according to Google.<\/p>\n<p>However, the jury is still out on Google&#8217;s ability to challenge Microsoft, analysts said, pointing out that it remains to be seen if hardware manufacturers will launch Chrome-based products.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?237667-Free-Google-Chrome-OS-here-in-2010\"><strong>Free Chrome OS<\/strong><\/a> &lt;&lt; comments and views<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google said on Wednesday it is planning to release its Chrome operating system, seen as a rival to Microsoft&#039;s Windows system, for free this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12819","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12819"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12819\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}