pichai: the third topic, which we want to give youan update on, is chrome os. so chrome os is somethingwe started working on in earnest about a year ago. and we announcedthe open source project. i think it's worth recapping why we started working onthis problem in the first place. when we launched chrome, we noticed that, based on everydata that we could find,
people live withinthe browser and use the webmost of the time. in fact, since 2004on your computers, it is very hardto name a single application outside of the web, a traditional desktopapplication, which is scaledto millions of the users. very hard to nameeven one. and you can namehundreds of web applications.
people are votingvery strongly. it's a very profound shift. on their computers,people live on the browser within the web. but if you look at howmost computers, most pcs work today, most of the code onthe system, most of the complexityon the system, the security issuesyou run into the system,
the maintenanceyou deal with the system, has nothing to dowith the browser or the web. in fact, if you were to writeoperating systems today, this is nothow you would write it. most operating systems todayon personal computers were designed beforethe web even existed. so we really wantedto take the opportunity to rethink the personalcomputing experience
for the modern web, where users livemost of their time on their favoriteof applications. and that is what chrome osis about. in fact, chrome osis nothing but the web. we have gone to great lengthsto make sure it's essentiallyas close as possible chrome running on hardwaredirectly. sounds simplisticwhen you say that,
but once you makethat fundamental assumption, once you makethe basic assumption, you can deliver a far simpler,safer, more secure,and a delightful experience. it's easy, actually,to show it rather than talk about it. so we're gonna give youa full demo from a chrome notebook. we have a reference hardwarewe are gonna use
for the purpose of this demo, and kan is gonna help me walk through, uh,walk through chrome os. let's first startwith your windows machine. so--because that's wherewe have been demoing chrome since then. we can minimizeand show you it's your pc. and you can see we havethe chrome web store. this is kan's world.
these are the applicationshe has installed. this is his theme. he clearly loves speed. probably why he loves chromeas well. so he has a rocket theme. uh, you can see he hasbookmarks on top. this is his world. a very,very personalized world. so what you wantto go through
is what a real useris going to go through when they first geta brand-new chrome notebook and they open itoutside their box. so they want to walk with youinto an experience. so let's imagine kan heardabout chrome notebooks and he wants to go aheadand start setting up a chrome notebook. so let's switch--switch now to a chrome notebook
and this is whatusers will see when they firstopen the lid. so you open the box. this is what you see. you have to choose your internetconnectivity, obviously, so you can do that. the next stepis for you to read. the second stepis for you to read and accept termsand conditions.
so once you do that,we check for updates. in this case, we are inthe latest version. and then you need to log into your machine. you can continue withoutlogging in if you want. the next step is for youto take a picture. it turns outabout 50% of users don't like their picturesbeing taken. so we need to improvethe step. but kan, clearly,is not one of them.
so let's go aheadand take a picture, kan. so we'll click "ok," and what you will seeis we are now-- we are gonna launch youinto the chrome notebook. four steps, and you're insidein a brand-new chrome notebook with your applications,your bookmarks, your themes,your extensions. zero to donein less than 60 seconds on a brand-new machine.
[cheers and applause] we--we wanted to compareand contrast this with setting up a pc. but we realizedwe wouldn't have time in this event for usto set up our entire pc and get you backto all your data. that's how much simplerthis experience can be. so...so this is howyou set up the computer. so instant boot,instant set-up.
another common use case people run into with theirlaptops, their notebooks, is... they constantly close the lid, because, you know they wantto save power. they want to put iton standby. then they really want to getback to the web very, very quickly. but it takes time foryour computer to wake up. in fact, at google,i've seen this syndrome
by which peopleactually walk around with their laptops open. because they know,once they close it, it takes them timeto go back, check where the nextmeeting is, et cetera. again, becausewe want to deliver the web to you instantly, we have taken the timeto make sure we can resume instantlyas well.
uh, we resumevery, very fast. in fact, we resume so fast, it's hard for the projectorsto keep up. so if you can bear with us, we're gonna get a real,live camera in. so let's go and putthe machine in standby. so now we are puttingthe laptop in full standby mode. uh, this is, you know,it can last
in days of standby mode. imagine kan wants to go outfor a movie that evening, so he just wants to findinformation about movies. let's go and resumethe chrome notebook and--and, you know,as you can see, the projectoris coming back now. but it demosand it's connected back to the internet instantly, in all of milliseconds,every time.
in fact,the delaying factor is for the userto move their hands, type on the keyboard, and complete the query. so again, you can set upthe machine instantly, it boots near-instantly, and resumes really instant. just really instant, so... that's phenomenal.
the third use casewe want to show to you about is, again, by buildingnothing but the web, we can do amazing things. we can deliver the sameexperience to you everywhere. so let's go backand get on the screen, both the pcand the chrome notebook. so on one side,you're seeing the pc, chrome running on the pc. on the other side,you're seeing chrome
running on a chrome notebook. so that's good,and it's common for users-- kan is gonna movearound his home, assuming he usesboth machines. he's gonna workon both machines. let's see howthat world looks like. why don't we go aheadand uninstall the theme from one of the machines? so we're gonna go--
kan has changed his mindabout the theme. he's gotten tired of it.so he uninstalled the theme. let's go ahead and uninstallan application on the other machine. that is reader. so, you know, what-- you wanna go aheadand uninstall it, kan? liu: okay.pichai: okay, great. so kan can go aheadand uninstall reader,
and once he does,you see these changes propagate across all these machinesinstantly. so the theme has gone fromboth these machines, and the app shouldget uninstalled in about 10 to 20 seconds. so again, we make itpossible for you to get the same experienceeverywhere. it really does not matterwhich application.
the applicationis now gone. so does not matterwhich device you use. you can use chromeon your computer, on your windows, mac, move to chromeon a chrome notebook... within a matter of seconds. sometimes, like, literallywithin one second. we propagate your important dataeverywhere. we call this the sameexperience everywhere.
the fourth use case-- let's go backto the chrome notebook. the fourth use casewe want to show you is sharing. it's very common for all of usto share our computers. you know, we share it at homewith family and friends. but it's really hardto share your computers today. so in this case,kan is sharing his computer with his wife.
again, because we deliverthe same experience everywhere, all his wife needs to do,anytime, pick up the notebook. log in with hercredentials. she gets her experience. in fact, she canwalk away with the machine and it doesn't matterwhose machine this device really is. it is a truecloud computing device. the other use casewhich we work to optimize
is how do you share itwith a friend? you know, it's very common. for example,i go through this. i have friends visiting, and they occasionallywant to use my computer. i hesitate a little bitbecause, you know, i don't want them to seemy full browsing history. i see some discomfortwith them as well as they areusing my machine.
they're careful,because they're worried that i will have accessto their browsing history. so we've really thoughtabout this use case. so all your friendneeds to do is to clickon the guest mode. he can open your lid.it'll be here. he can ask themto use it on the guest mode. and we open a full incognitosession of chrome for your friend.
everything. in fact, it isthe most private mode today i've seen on any computers. your friend can use the devicein the guest mode. everything he doesin this mode is private. once he closesand exits guest mode, it's wiped out. i can't see what he has done, and he had no accessto any of my data.
we call this the "friendslet friends log in" feature. so we have made it, again,really-- by deliveringnothing but the web, we've made it very,very easy for you to shareyour computers. so far, walking throughthese use cases, it's very obviousconnectivity is an integral partof this experience. but we realize you won'tbe connected all the time.
so we want to show youhow that use case looks like. so let's imagine kan is goingback from mountain view. he lives in new york, and so he's going backto new york on a trip, uh, back home, and he's reachedthe airport. luckily, he has wi-fi. so he starts workingon google docs. so he's gonna go aheadand create a document for work
which is an importantdocument he's working on. then he realizes it's timefor him to board the plane. unfortunately,he's not on virgin, airtran, or delta. because if you wenton one of those airlines, you get free wi-fi sponsoredby google chrome. but he's ona different airline. and so he doesn'thave free wi-fi. so he's within the--within the plane.
not a problem, right? so he can continueworking on google docs. let's--we just disconnectedthe connectivity. we can even show it to youby going to google.com. the device is no longerconnected. the device is offline. you can go backto google docs and continueworking on the document. not a problem.
you can keepworking on it. google docsis an application i love. it's amazinglycollaborative. the next timehe gets connectivity, not only willhis changes get seen, other people could be workingon the document at the same time, and they will allget seen. so the google docs teamis working on this feature
to make it work offline. they'll havemore details today, but it's an upcoming featureof google docs, which i think reallyhelps complete the story. so you can continueto be productive, even whenyou're not connected. but, you know, you don'talways want to work. you want to have funat times. so let's assume kanon the plane gets bored.
he can go backto the web store. and again, a whole set of appson the chrome web store will work offline. for example, let's go aheadand click on a game. "entanglement." it tells himit's offline. but he can continueplaying the game. because using html5 offline, they've cached the gamelocally on the machine.
so it's the kind of gamein which it's very difficult. uh, you really shouldtry playing it. but he cancontinue doing it without anywi-fi connectivity. we also want to show youwhat else you can do. you can read news. earlier, new york times showed how their apps works offline. they're in the processof completing it.
we'll go aheadand show it to you again. you're not connected. you can click, and you willbe with the new york times. so...we havemade it possible for you to use this device even if you're not an--if you don't have connectivity. having said that, we realizein today's modern web, we really needto be connected. what does it mean in today'sworld of twitter,
real time updates,social networking, constant email,constant news. i really think computersaren't that useful when you're not connected. so given this isa cloud computing device, we've put in a lot of workto make sure users alwayshave the option. always have the optionto stay connected with the chrome notebook.
we'll show you how it works. so kan has landed in new york. landed safely in new york. and he's on a taxi cabride home. so obviously he hasno connectivity. but he wantsto plan dinner. what he can do,he can go ahead and enablecellular connectivity. as you can see,he's doing that right now.
every chrome notebookwill ship will built-indata connectivity. you can switch seamlessly between wi-fiand cellular. so we're gonna showthat he's back on connectivity. you can seeon the top of the icon he's actuallyusing it on 3g. it works really wellin 3g. and we can--as lt rolls along,
we are very excitedabout that as well. so you have connectivityfully built in. let's go aheadand do a query. maybe he wantsto plan dinner. and it turns out he heardsomething about spaghetti tacos. and he's really excitedat having that for dinner. the point here is it works. we are doing this in 3g.
we can even showother use cases. so he found a recipe.he can go ahead and print from his taxicab,without any printer drivers on his machine. no printer drivers. using google cloud print, he can print on any deviceconnected to his network. and so he's gonna go aheadand print it so that it's ready for himat his home,
and it'll get printed. as you can see,it's printing out right now, and that's recipefor kan's dinner. so the thingthat you've done-- google cloud print, by the way,is in beta, and it'll be rolling outshortly as well. there you go, kan. liu: thanks. pichai: so going backto connectivity,
how did we do this? so i want to give you details on how chrome osis connected. so let's go backto the slides. we have partnered withthe leading wireless carrier in the united states, verizon wireless, to offer seamless,built-in connectivity in every chrome notebook.
the plan is very unique. verizon has workedwith us closely to make sure the customer is at the centerof this experience. you have no contracts,no commitments. when you get a chromenotebook, ever user has 100 megsof free data every month for two years. liu: and it's clicked.
pichai: all...all... all you need to dois go ahead and activate it. the activation processtakes about five minutes. we are working very closelywith verizon to make that even simpler. it's a fully self-drivenactivation process. again, not commitments,no contracts, et cetera. you pay for onlywhat you need.
a unique part of the planis you can just get a day pass. any time you want,if you're-- about 100 megs. you can get a day passfor $9.99, and you get unlimited datafor a day. or you canbuy data in chunks. you can buy one gigabyteat a time, and you keepgoing that way. again, the plans aren'trecurring automatically,
just becauseyou buy it once. so it's a reallycustomer-friendly plan, built with customer in mind. you pay for what you use. i've been using my deviceon verizon network. that's what we demoedit to you here. it works amazingly well.the web is really usable. so we're very excited,given the nature of this device. we will give you the optionto use it offline.
but more importantly,as users, as you travel around, you know, we have built in a gobi world mode--uh,modem from qualcomm, which powers all of this. so we've enabledinternational options as well. so users can move around and always be connectedwith the device. [applause]
the next areaon chrome os was, we've talked aboutspeed and simplicity. just like with chrome, security is a hugearea of focus for chrome os. just want to take a minuteand talk to you about how today's pcs workfrom a security standpoint. the model is very,very simple. you, as a user,are responsible
for keepingyour computer secure. it is--the onus is on you. you have to make sure your computeris up to date. in the case of chrome,i talked about keeping the browserup to date. but in the case ofthe operating system on your pc, you have to make sureevery single application on your pc is up to date.
on top of it,you have to make sure your entire operatingsystem is up to date, otherwise, you canget compromise, and it happens every day. users have to decidewhat files they can install. they get thesesecurity warnings, which says, "do you wantto trust and install this executable?" data shows again and again,
the single biggest securitythreat on computers is between the keyboardand the seat. it's the users.we are busy. we keep doing other things. we click wrong once-- click "yes" wrongly once, you've compromisedyour machine. so the onus of securityon pcs today is on the user.
we think this canbe very, very different. and that's what the chrome ossecurity is all about. again, let's go back to thedefense in depth strategy. so we have the castle,which is chrome. we already had that. so you're browsingwithin chrome. you getall of chrome's updates. you get chrome sandboxing. but you've added severaladditional layers in chrome os.
first of all,the entire operating system will be automaticallyupdated for users. you never, ever dealwith the operating system or any applications. all your applicationsin your app store, your operating system,will be seamlessly updated, keeping the machinevery secure. we've added additionalsandboxing beyond the browser at an operating system level.
so if malwareescapes the browser. we keep containing itin another security boundary, so that is a huge protection. the third areawhich i'm excited by is, by default,all user data in chrome os, by default,is encrypted. heavily encrypted. which is why tomorrowi can close my machine, hand it to another user.
i don't needto worry about it. the data is encryptedby default. finally, an area which isan amazing computer science... innovation,which i want to talk about, is verified boot. this idea has been aroundfor a while. uh, you know, we hopeto be the first consumer operating system which ever shipsverified boot.
what verified bootdoes is, you take the core, initial partof the operating system-- the core, initial part-- and you put iton your device in what we callread-only firmware. you put it in a partof the device which no software-- no software canmodify or alter it. unless you physicallyget access to the device,
swap out that component, you cannot alter or modifythat core, initial partof the operating system. so we always knowthat is safe. and every timewhen you boot chrome os, we use that safe partto cryptographically, digitally checkevery other component of the operating system to make sure it hasn'tbeen modified or altered.
if you detect any changes, any changes, we keep a knowngood backup copy to which we can revert. or we can warn the user. it is very, very hardto compromise this layer. the combinationof all these layers, you know,we are very confident that when we shipchrome notebooks
it will be the most secureconsumer operating system that has ever beenshipped to users. so security is an integral partof this experience. so far, we have been talking about chrome os experiencefor consumers, but a natural partof the security story lends itself very wellto businesses as well. in fact, while we announcedthe project for consumers, we were positively surprised
by the extent to which ciosshowed interest in chrome os. we had a lot of incoming callsfrom cios. and whilewe intuitively understood the value propositionof chrome os to businesses, it was greatto hear this validated from their own words. so there are three main thingswhich most cios identify as what is greatabout chrome os for businesses. the first is the securitybenefits i talked about.
countless hours,countless hours are spent within their enterprise keeping their systemsafe and secure. the second area is simplicity. if you look at the amountof administration-- in fact, we talk to sysadminsall the time. they're very frustrated by the amount of timethey have to spend on tasks like installingnew software,
making sure the latest versionis updated, et cetera. they want to instead spend it onhigher-value added activities, like what applications theycan deploy in the enterprise, not worry about installingand updating software. huge opportunity there. the third area,we don't even need to spend time with cios on this. the total cost of ownershipof our model, this is what they have today,
is a couple of ordersof magnitude different. so the delta is so huge, we've actually been inundated with, you know,with interest from enterprise, from cios. in fact, one of the leadingenterprise solutions vendors, citrix systems, they actually today workwith a lot of companies. they work with cios today.
cios suggested--givenwhat you're trying to do and given what chrome osis trying to do-- why don't you work together to make surewe can also access important productivityapplications directly from chrome notebooks? to show you how that works, i'm gonna invite gordon payne, who's the svpof citrix systems.
payne:all right, thanks, sundar. and we're gonnahave brad pedersen, our chief demonstration officerfrom citrix join me on stage here as well. we are absolutely excited to be working with googleon chrome and chrome os, and we're excitedabout the partnership. the best thingabout this partnership that sundar just mentioned
is it is absolutelycustomer driven. these are ciosand organizations where google has been outtalking with the organizations, and they suggested that weshould partner together. so why is that? well, citrix is deployedwidely in organizations. we've spent the last10 or 15 years taking applicationsoff of pcs, moving themto the data center,
running them safely,securely in the data center, and delivering themas a service. by the way,like everything is on the web. we just do itinside of organizations, for workersinside the organization and for remote access as well. so with that centralization and delivery of enterprise and business applicationsas a service,
this is a natural partnership with chrome osand chrome notebooks. as an example, we have approximately 250,000customers around the world centralizing and deliveringtheir applications within their organization. this is every kind of business. banks, retail, hospitals, government, manufacturing.
and they may have 200--250,000 employees, or they may have 50 employees. so very large and very small, and very broadly deployed. so we've been off doing thisand centralizing applications, delivering them as a service. now, the way our users getaccess to those applications is something calledcitrix receiver. citrix receiver works on pcs,on macs,
on just about every tableton the planet. we call ourselvestablets "r" us these days. every smartphone. you can goto the android market, download citrix receiver and have it runon your android phone, and if your companyhas citrix, you can get accessto all of your applications in your organizationthrough citrix receiver.
so we've been workingwith the engineering teams in google to makecitrix receiver work very wellwith chrome os, and if we can moveto the demo... what you see hereis the log-in screen for citrix receiver. so you've got chrome os, you pop the browser,you hit this tab, and whether you'rein the company or remote,
you can log inand get your applications. so, brad, can you give usa bit of a tour? pedersen:i will do just that. so here i'm gonna go aheadand click on "log in." and this brings me to myhome page for citrix receiver. so these arethe enterprise applications that i use day in and day out. just a couple. two, three hereas an example.
if i click on the firstproductivity application that you see there, you might be familiar with, it's gonna open it up. it's gonna run rightin front of me here, and it's gonna appear as thoughit's here in front of me. in fact,it's very interactive when i connect in hereand start changing values in the spreadsheet.
payne: okay, so hold on. let's just be clear so peoplecan understand what's going on. we're accessing excelin chrome, but excel is actually running onthe server in the data center, the private cloud of the companyin their own data center. so it's safe, secure,runs in the data center, and did you seehow fast it launched? excel doesn't launch that fastjust on any--a pc, right? so it's fast.pedersen: yeah.
payne: and now you'rein the environment. it is fast and responsive. even thoughit's in the data center, all of the experiencesare right here. pedersen: that's right. and the nice partabout this is, this is a spreadsheet that i wasworking on earlier in the day, so i come upto another device like this, connect in, and it's leftwhere i left off last.
now, in additionto spreadsheets, let's look at some of theseother applications we saw here, more financial-basedapplications like sap. so you're gonna find sapin enterprises around the world. clearly a clientserver-based application. connect in, gets youto the log on prompt. you can goright inside sap and-- payne: so just on sap, every company's financialsystem, their supply chain,
customer relationshipmanagement running on sap. now, after you've seen poppit, i don't think thisis one of those things that we want to go inand demonstrate, so you've got somethingthat's a little cooler? pedersen: now,this is a cad/cam application. so there's a lotof data involved here. solid works. come up into thislittle sea-doo design
and, you know,decide whether you want to go intoshaded form or not, or pop a perspectiveon here. and again, complex, heavy,data-rich experience here. we're all runningin the data center, sent to me here. now, i'm sitting hereworking away on all these different tabsthat i brought up, so i've got excel, and i canstill crank away in there,
pop into sap and stillgo into solid works cad/cam. payne:so multiple applications all runningin the data center, and you can movefrom device to device, access them,never shut them down, or shut them down if you want. what if i want more apps? 'cause three is never enough. we can go into theenterprise apps location here
with citrix receiver. so this represents here, and if i go over to the sideand scroll down, all the applicationsinside the enterprise. so you can imaginecompanies around the world with hundredsif not thousands of applicationsthat are made available to their employees alreadywith citrix. well, now you cancome in with receiver
and go and access those. if i click on sapin the search space, it's gonna show methat the sap enterprise portal is an appthat i've already added. i just showed you that.i'm using that. payne: boy,a search-centric interface. isn't that a surprise? pedersen: yes. now, here i've got additionalsap applications
that i can pick, but i can also go inand grab some others that i don't have yet,like hyperion. so search for that, graba few hyperion applications, click on "add." i can add thoseinto my home space within the browser here,and now they are. if i go aheadand launch one of those, it opens right up.
well, there you go. i hate it whenmy parent is invalid. it launches, uh,the application, and away we go. all right. it should. now, as it does--it launches itin thebackground, we're gonna seethe rest of our applications are still open, and wecan continue to work with those across the tabs here, and, again,very interactive data.
payne: can you just go backto the store, brad? so we have multipleapplications running. we have the store. you can add application. you see the user experience is very similarto the google web store. this is a private storein the organization. so nice and simpleand consistent for users, from the public web
and also withprivate cloud implementations. very, very cool. so for our users, what you saw inthe demonstration here was accessing applications,launching applications, getting more applications,running applications. great and simple for our users, and these applicationsare already in the enterprise, so you bring ina chrome notebook,
and you'll have immediate access to all of the enterpriseapplications as well. we're working on thisjointly with google. we expect to introduce itin the first half of next year to enable all of our customers to be able to adoptchrome os and notebooks within the organization. so back to sundar's pointas the introduction here, what we're doingwith all of this
is taking all of theapplications off of machines into the data center, so you have your appsand data in the data center that's secure. the next thing is it'sunbelievably simple to use. it's simple, and also it's a little bit fun. imagine thatin enterprise applications. and, last but not least, really easy to managethe endpoint devices
and all of the thingsthat are in the data center. so you know that we're goingto reduce the cost of managing applications. and that's a beautiful thing. so, with that,i'll turn it back to sundar to complete the story. thank you. pichai: so that reallyhelps complete the story, and make it much moreattractive for businesses.
so let's go to recapwhat we have shown you on chrome os. by building an experiencewhich is nothing but the web, we can make it instant. instant for you to set up, boot, and get on the weball the time. we deliver the sameexperience everywhere, independentof the device you use. extremely simple to share.
seamless sharingwith friends and family. it's always connected. you can use it offline, but we give users the option to be always connected with built in connectivityfrom verizon, any time, anywhere. security is built infrom the ground up. the final pointi want to add is,
if you remember the day, the first day when you goand buy a brand-new, shiny pc, feels really good that day. a month later,it's gotten a bit slower. a year later, it's actuallya lot slower. you have a lot of applicationsslowing it down. it used to takemaybe 30 seconds to boot up, but now it takesa minute to boot up. computers get slow over time.
we want to deliver a experiencewhich is the opposite. i've been using achrome notebook for six months, and the computer actuallygets better over time. the reason is,just like chrome, we have a new version of the operating systemevery few weeks, and we automaticallyupdate you, so you don't need to-- it's very hardin today's pc
to go and buy a new versionof the operating system and update your machineto that version. so we wantto deliver this experience where the computerforever feels new. so that is whatthe product is. so let's talk aboutwhere we are now. so it's meant to simulatea work in progress. we started working on itin earnest about a year ago. amazing progress,but we aren't fully done yet.
the cloud print examplei showed you works, but it is in a beta stage. we need to get it to stable. these devices have usb ports. we expect peopleto plug in cameras. we exactly know whatwe need to do there. we haven't quitedone the work yet. we need to tuneperformance more so that it is reallychrome fast end to end,
across the device. and finally,there are bugs, just like you would findbeta software. so we realizewe have some time left to go. let me first tell youwhat is coming from partners in retail. we're very excited to announce that we're working with two ofthe leading oems in the world. acer is one of the leadingpc manufacturers in the world,
and samsungis one of the leading consumer electronics vendorsin the world. we're working with them closely,along with intel-- these will be poweredby intel chips-- to deliver chrome notebooksin the hands of consumers in the mid of 2011. there are many other oemswho are working on it, and they will followwith various devices and form factors after that.
so that's what'scoming down the line, and we are very,very excited by it. having said that, i've beenliving on this device internally for six monthsas my primary device. thousands of googlers-- thousands of googlersare actually using this as their main computer. uh, we aretesting it internally. so given this isa open source project
and we are working withcommunity and partners, we actually wantedto have a program by which we could ship these devices-- a few of thesedevices externally, so that real users can test outand give us feedback. so i'm very, very excited to announce that todaywe are introducing the chrome os pilot program. so the program is intendedfor early adopters,
users who are usedto using beta software, to use itand give us feedback. let me give you detailson the pilot program. first let me show the device. so this is the devicewhich we are gonna use for the pilot program. we call it cr-48. uh, cr stands for chromium. there are manyisotopes of chromium,
but after a day's debate amongstthe engineers at google, they figured 48is the isotope they want to namethis device at. it is--as you can see, it's completely unbranded. it's available in any coloras long as it's black. there are no brands,no stickers. the hardware existsonly to test the software. having said that, there areattributes of this device
which we hope to seein our partner hardware as well, so we'll give you someof the high-level specs. first of all,it has a 12.1-inch display. really optimized. it's a high-resolution display,optimized for the battery. it's a full-size keyboard. there's no shrinkin the keyboard, so that it's really easyto use for hours at a time. a huge, oversized touch pad.
clickable touch pad. we have 3g built in. it has a fast,dual-band wi-fi. 802.11n bothinbound and outbound, so it's very fast. it has overeight hours of active use. i pretty much use it all day without needingto carry a charger, and well over a weekof standby time.
with web cam built in. given this is for the web, we've made a fewchanges as well. there are no caps-lock keys. we are optimistic it'll improvethe quality of comments all over the web. [laughter, applause] there are nofunction keys as well. my momstill hasn't figured out
what to dowith the function keys. there are no hard drives,no spinning discs. we occasionally drop theseto test it out. there's more than enoughgigabytes you need, but there are no hard drives. and finally,jail-breaking mode is a built-in featureof the product. so, as developers, you can flip the device,take out the battery,
flip a switch. you can do whatever you want. you can install anotheroperating system too. it's fully availablefor you to break into. so that's ourreference hardware, cr-48. so let me talk about howwe're going to distribute it in the pilot program. first it's businesses. we mention how cioshave been very interested
in deploying this. all the partners mentionedon this slide are going to be deployingpilot programs of chrome notebooks,of cr-48s. so there are many names here. there are companieslike meadwestvaco, which is based in chicago. there, people fromtheir it teams actually had chromium osrunning on their machines
before we evenapproached them. actually,they approached us. american airlines seized usas an ideal candidate for remote reservation agents. all they dois live within a browser while they handlereservations. in fact, we've had so muchinterest from call centers. there are call centerswhich have 3,000 employees who spend their entire dayliving within the browser,
and they runcomplex pcs today, which are insecure, and it'svery costly to administer. virgin america. while they'regonna start small for certain portionsof their organization, their cio sees itas a candidate for the entire company. they think this could workfor their entire company. so that's an opportunityas well.
one final namei would like to call out is department of defense, who knows a thing or twoabout security. they are interestedin deploying it in some of their affiliatedorganizations as well. uh, and they told uswe can tell you what thoseorganizations there. so that's how we're gonnagive it to businesses. let's talk about the pilotprogram for consumers.
as i'm speaking today, in the new tab page of chrome,for a few users, there'll be an offerto join the pilot program. they will see it up hereon their screens. they can click it, and if they're interested,they can apply for it, and we will ship thema chrome notebook device. so that's one way to get it. we also ran, uh,on the facebook fan page,
we have over4.3 million followers. we ran a promotioncouple days ago announcing a stickerfor your chrome laptop, and there was a quiz. if you did that quizand you got selected, you'll get a sticker. but it turns out it'll be ona actual chrome notebook being shipped to youright now. there's more.
you can go to youtube. you can go toyoutube.com/googlechrome, and can submit a video as to why you would makean ideal candidate for this chrome notebook. we are looking for peoplewho understand what we're doing, can help us testand give feedback, so we'll be selecting usersfrom there as well. for those of youin the audience,
hopefully in the nextfew minutes, there should be an emailin your inbox, and if you click thatand give us an address, we will ship a chrome notebook to everyonein this room as well. for everyone else, for those who are watchingon the web cast, you can come to this url-- google.com/chromenotebook,
and there is an application. there's a link there which is"apply for the pilot program." you can click thereand apply for the pilot program. we have limitednumber of devices, and we're really lookingto get it to the right users.
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