Google�s Plan To Give Chrome OS

Google�s Chrome OS is due to appear out some time this year, and there are still affluence of questions about how bodies are activity to use a computer that�s based absolutely in the browser. One catechism that came up back the OS was aboriginal announced: how are bodies activity to book from this thing? Google has aloof spelled out its band-aid on the Chromium Blog: The Cloud.

Google has appear a new activity alleged Google Billow Book which is ambience out to �build a press acquaintance that enables any app (web, desktop, or mobile) on any accessory to book to any printer anywhere in the world.� In short, your computer or accessory will acquaint Billow Book what it wants printed, and Billow Book will again accelerate the adapted instructions to your printer. No printer drivers necessary.

Google is accouterment some antecedent affidavit on the activity here. The armpit says that any application, be it built-in or web based, will be able to use Billow Book through APIs (which will acquiesce you to abide book jobs and additionally analysis job status).

Of course, there�s still one big problem: accepting Google Billow Book to absolutely allocution to your printer. Google has two solutions to this. In the continued term, it is proposing that the industry accept new accessible standards about billow printing, and that manufacturers body new printer models to be �cloud aware�. In added words, the printer is affiliated to the web and includes software that knows how to acquaint with Google�s servers.

The additional band-aid is for �legacy printers� (which accommodate all printers at this point�even printers with an ethernet or Wifi connection). For these, Google affairs to action software that you install on the PC that the printer is affiliated to. Google is currently architecture this proxy software for Windows and intends to abutment Mac and Linux bottomward the line. You won�t absolutely install the software on your own, either � it will appear with Google Chrome (though it will be off by default). Google additionally hopes that some router manufacturers will alpha including the proxy software in their devices, so that users don�t accept to leave their computers on.

A few key things to note: Google is activity to action its own Billow Book service, but it wants the accepted to be accessible and expects added another casework to bounce up as well. And this isn�t aloof for computers � it could potentially be acclimated for phones, tablets, and any added web-enabled device. Wouldn�t that be nice.


via http://techcrunch.com/2010/04/15/googles-plan-to-give-chrome-os-and-all-web-enabled-devices-universal-printer-support/