No doubt, Dell wants to be on the list of exclusive extraordinary innovations like Chrome OS that will hit store shelves in the next few years. For this, Google and Dell are under talks to bring Chrome OS, the search giant’s cloud-centric operating system, to Dell’s computer lineup very soon.
Though no official announcements have been made by either Dell or Google, still we expect Dell to produce a Google Chrome OS-based computer. Google also recently announced that Chrome OS devices would be launched at some point between the fall and the end of the year, so it may hit with Dell.
When Google announced Chrome OS, the company said it was functioning with a number of technology firms to produce Chrome OS devices, including Acer, Adobe, ASUS, Freescale, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, and Toshiba. Dell, however, was notably absent from that list at that time.
But, the Texas-based manufacturer’s interest in Chrome OS is hardly shocking. Shortly after Google announced Chrome OS in July 2009, Dell said it would consider testing Chrome OS for future products. Several months later, a Dell employee released a free download of Chromium OS for Dell Mini 10v computers on a company blog. Chromium OS is the open source project that Chrome OS is based on. But whatever, Dell realised its importance I guess!
“We have to have a point of view on the industry and technology direction two years, three years down the road, so we continuously work with Google on this,” Amit Midha, Dell’s president for Greater China and South Asia told Reuters in an interview.
“There are going to be unique innovations coming up in the marketplace in two, three years, with a new form of computing, we want to be on that forefront … So with Chrome or Android or anything like that we want to be one of the leaders,” Midha said, adding that there were no firm announcements to be made but talks were underway.
Lets hope to grab in some more updates on this soon, but in the meantime, stay connected.
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