Google Chrome Blog: chrome os

‘Tis the season for Chromebooks

Monday, November 21, 2011

ChromebooksA simple, streamlined user interfacerevamped the New Tab pageChrome Web Storenew lookHassle-free for the holidaysonline retail partnersSamsung Experienceflying with Virgin Americafeedbacknew film shortsPosted by Venkat Rapaka, Senior Product Manager

Go hands-on with a Chromebook in London

Friday, September 30, 2011

PC World / Currys superstorePosted by Laura Thompson, Product Marketing Manager

The computer that keeps getting better...

Wednesday, August 10, 2011

ChromebooksNetflixKindle Cloud ReaderPrint to DocsGoogle Cloud Print

Citrix Receiver Tech PreviewVPN

a computer that keeps getting betterUpdate 8/10Update 8/11Google Cloud PrintPosted by Alberto Martin, Technical Program Manager

Summer travel with a Chromebook

Thursday, June 30, 2011

ChromebookVirgin AmericaAce HotelVirgin AmericaChrome Zone

Ace Hotel New York

Ace New York Field GuideBeat the BootChrome Web StoreherePosted by Heaven Kim, Product Marketing Manager

Chromebooks now available for sale

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

unveiledAmazonBestBuy.comgoogle.com/chromebookcontact our sales team

Posted by Felix Lin, Director of Product Management

Living on the web with the Chrome Web Store (and the Cr-48!)

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Chrome Web Storeplaying gameslistening to musicgetting work donetest-pilotMOGBoxLucidChartZohorock outmanage your filesperfect your diagram drawing skillsmove your officeChrome Web StorePosted by Heaven Kim, Product Marketing Manager

Guest post from the Demo Lab: Help us test the Cr-48

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

google.com/demolabPosted by Lab Tech, Demo Lab

X = G / (CHROM - 3)

Friday, December 10, 2010

Yesterday, we posted a demo video with a secret challenge where the first clever person to crack the code would receive a Cr-48. Just 20 hours later, the puzzle was solved correctly by the team at Jamendo. Congratulations!
Here’s how you can find the puzzle and the solution.
First, around 2:24 in the video, you see the following equations on the board:

The constants solve out as follows:

G = 900.91

C = 8335727

H = 269462689

R = 222647

O = 694079

M = 552

The final equation is written as:

X = G / (C*H*R*O*M - 3)

Plugging in the previous answers gets you to:

900.91 / 191605050401140404051920181525

At that point, the puzzle changes from math to code where the numbers represent letters. It hints to that by the final equation spelling CHROM3, but we expected people to get stuck here and have to play around for a bit. The first mental leap is that you have to visually identify 900.91 as goo.gl (just like spelling words on a calculator: 9=g,0=o,0=o,9=g,1=l). The division sign is a slash ( / ), so this pretty clearly points to the Google URL shortener. From there, you need to figure out the shortened URL.
The number 191605050401140404051920181525 may confuse people for a bit, but the large number of zeros and the repeated "04" and "05" sequences in it visually allude to pairs within the string. Once you see that, it can be broken up into:

19 16 05 05 04 01 14 04 04 05 19 20 18 15 25

If you've gotten this far, you've probably noticed that all of those numbers are between 1 and 26. From here, it's just a straight mapping to letters of the alphabet (A=1, B=2, C=3, etc). Decoding the full string gives you:

s p e e d a n d d e s t r o y

Putting everything together, the end result is:

goo.gl/speedanddestroy

That URL points to a page where you can fill out a form to request a shiny new Chrome notebook (the form is closed now, of course).
Posted by Chris Lyon, Hardware Engineer, Chrome OS Team

Keep calm and carry on: Chrome notebook

Friday, December 10, 2010

Chrome event

Posted by Glen Murphy, UX Designer

An update on Chrome, the Web Store and Chrome OS

Tuesday, December 7, 2010

Chrometwice as fastearly access channelsChrome Web StoreChrome Web StoreChrome OSannouncedChrome notebook websitePosted by Linus Upson, VP Engineering and Sundar Pichai, VP Product Management

Announcing the Chromium OS Open Source Project

Thursday, November 19, 2009

Today we released Chromium OS, the open source project behind Google Chrome OS. Google Chrome OS is an operating system that is intended for people who spend most of their time on the web. It aims to provide a computing experience that is fast, simple and secure. The Chromium OS project as you'll see it today is comprised of the code that has been developed thus far, our early experiments with the user interface, and detailed design docs for many parts that are under active development.
To learn more about what Google Chrome OS is, watch this short video:

To get a feel for the Google Chrome OS user experience, you can watch the demo from this morning's announcement event.

Posted by Kan Liu, Product Manager

Google Chrome OS - FAQ

Wednesday, July 8, 2009

Introducing the Google Chrome OSIs Google Chrome OS free?What companies is Google working with to support Google Chrome OS?I'm a developer – how can I work with you?