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Stephen Downes

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The big news today is Google's release of Chrome, its browser-OS hybrid, as open source. This is a direct challenge to Microsoft, enabling the possibility that users could run applications off the web using a minimal (Windowless) operating system on slimmed-down computers. Things, maybe, like this Android tablet. Here's how to try it for yourself (warning: not simple). Here's the video intro (now a Google staple). Reax from CNN, Chatti, Mashable, Bryan Alexander, CNet, Technology Review, BBC News.

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