The "Google's Chrome OS: Riding The Cloud" report is now available

Google has positioned its Chrome Operating System, launched last month, as THE operating system for a coming avalanche of netbook-like cloudbooks and other devices. It could substantially cut into the market for portable PCs and tablets.

Chrome OS devices will have a full keyboard, unlike tablets, and be used for cloud-based computing and storage.

But who needs Chrome OS and why should a new netbook buyer make the transition? And how exactly does Google intend to make Windows and Apple OSX-based machines relics of the past?

That's what readers will find out in Rider Research's new report: "Google's Chrome OS: Riding The Cloud".

Over 27 pages, this briefing:
1) brings a first glance, description and review experience of Chrome OS
2) analyses its impact on future cloudbook sales
3) assesses Google's cultivation of wider communities such as developers, content providers and device manufacturers.
4) provides a rundown of competing mobile Operating Systems such as Google's own Android, Apple iOS, Windows Mobile & BlackBerry OS
5) gives a round-up of recent events connected with the launch
6) appraises the likely scenario when the first devices go on sale in Q2 of 2011

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Who should read this report? This is essential research for content and rights’ owners; device and component vendors; mobile carriers; service providers; apps and software developers; IT strategy formulators and buyers; consultants; financial analysts with an interest in the future of mobile devices, software and broadband.

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Introduction
Chrome OS Launches
Google Brings The Whole Shebang to the Cloud
Chrome's Web Store

Chrome Cloudbook Review
- Forecast Cloudy: A First Look at a Chrome Device
- The goods: simplicity and setup
- The bad: the keyboard
- The really bad: the trackpad
- The unknown: ports
- The Unknown: Connectivity
- The good: free broadband and the cloud
- The bad: not-so-free broadband and the cloud
- The unknown: cloud printing

Chrome Browser News

Competing Mobile Operating Systems
- Android (Google)
- bada (Samsung)
- BlackBerry OS (Research In Motion)
- iOS (Apple)
- Maemo (Nokia)
- MeeGo (Nokia, Intel)
- Moblin (Intel)
- QNX (RIM)
- Symbian OS (Nokia)
- webOS (HP)
- Windows Mobile & Windows Phone (Microsoft)

Relevant Stats & Stories
Chrome browser Jumps to 9.26, First Signs of Chrome OS Testers?
Mass Consumption: Everything Will Eat Everything and Drop Sales
High Performance, Low Power Oak Trail Due Early 2011

Conclusion