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This post is about downloading and installing windows 8 – the latest operating system which is about to release to the public from Microsoft in the Windows series.

Windows 8 is mainly intended for the systems with touch screen support. The ui is completely different from what we have seen. Its code name was metro and it resembles the Windows Phone 7 UI for mobile devices.

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Microsoft is again reminding us about the Support end date for Windows XP sp2 is July 2010. It seems like they really want us to buy their latest OS Windows 7. Along with this Windows XP SP2, the Support ends at the same day for Windows 2000 Server and Client.

Microsoft said this through their windowsteamblog.com.

They have given lots of links which gives us the details of Windows 7 upgrade. Since Windows 7 is agood operating system according to my opinion I will also recommend that you change your OS to WIn 7. It worth it.

For this holidays Google have a present for us, Guess What!!! Its the long awaited Google Chrome Browser for MAC and Linux, even with hell lot of extensions.

Google Chrome for Mac (Beta)

Here Google boasts about the speed of Chrome. The blog post says “there’s hardly even time for the icon in the dock to bounce!”. Google have worked a lot for the clean and simple design with subtle animations and effects to create a snappy and satisfying browsing experience on OS X. This release of Chrome for Mac repeatedly postponed.

But still there is bad news for MAC users. According to Google Blog post about this release, the extensions “aren’t quite beta-quality on Mac yet”.

See the video for MAC Google Chrome Here.

Google Chrome for Linux (Beta)

Here Google ensures a High performance browser which can integration with native GTK themes very well. Also the updates are managed by the standard system package manager.

Almost all of you are aware of the (in)famous ‘Blue screen of death‘ a.k.a. ‘BSOD’.

Its nothing but a colloquialism used for the error screen displayed by some operating systems, most notably Microsoft Windows, after encountering a critical system error that can cause the system to shut down to prevent irreversible damage to the system’s integrity. It serves to present information for diagnostic purposes that was collected as the operating system issued a bug check.

Now this will happen if you have corrupt driver, corrupt softwares, bad hardwares etc etc.

But now comes Black Screen of death. Now this time it comes because of nothing but the famous windows Update Patches. The latest Windows Update Patches are causing some systems “Black Screen of Death“.

The Security firm PrevX have reported this issue, And they are offering a free tool to fix this Black Screen of Death.

How to Fix Black Screen of Death

Namely, the Chromium browser build for Chrome OS (assuming the now forbidden folder on the Chromium.org servers was accurately named) looks like it’s integrating the tab bar with what would normally be the taskbar/menubar of the operating system. As you can see in the screenshot above, the browser embeds a clock in the top right of the browser window, along with “a network connection dialog (non-functional here), and a battery meter (also non-functional).” That would mean, as we’ve suspected, that the Chrome browser would likely be the main, basic windowing system for Chrome OS.

On the other end of the browser window, we’ve got something else to pick apart:

In the top-left, you have what appears to be the new logo (so far I have been unable to find a larger version of that image). Clicking on it opens this Google Short Links window, which doesn’t really allow you to do anything unless you have a google.com email address, which I assume is restricted to Google employees only.

It’s still clearly a major work in progress, and now Google has entirely forbidden access to the folder containing Chromium builds specifically for Chrome OS, but it’s good to get a glimpse at where they’re headed.

Credit: LifeHacker

According to a blog entry in the official google blog, they are planning to launch a new operating system chrome, for computers. They also said this OS will be open source, free and that they hope will rival mature operating systems such as those from Apple and Microsoft. Since this is a open source free operating system we got something to be happy about.

The Full blog entry is:

“It’s been an exciting nine months since we launched the Google Chrome browser. Already, over 30 million people use it regularly. We designed Google Chrome for people who live on the web — searching for information, checking email, catching up on the news, shopping or just staying in touch with friends. However, the operating systems that browsers run on were designed in an era where there was no web. So today, we’re announcing a new project that’s a natural extension of Google Chrome — the Google Chrome Operating System. It’s our attempt to re-think what operating systems should be.

Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010. Because we’re already talking to partners about the project, and we’ll soon be working with the open source community, we wanted to share our vision now so everyone understands what we are trying to achieve.

Speed, simplicity and security are the key aspects of Google Chrome OS. We’re designing the OS to be fast and lightweight, to start up and get you onto the web in a few seconds. The user interface is minimal to stay out of your way, and most of the user experience takes place on the web. And as we did for the Google Chrome browser, we are going back to the basics and completely redesigning the underlying security architecture of the OS so that users don’t have to deal with viruses, malware and security updates. It should just work.

Google Chrome OS will run on both x86 as well as ARM chips and we are working with multiple OEMs to bring a number of netbooks to market next year. The software architecture is simple — Google Chrome running within a new windowing system on top of a Linux kernel. For application developers, the web is the platform. All web-based applications will automatically work and new applications can be written using your favorite web technologies. And of course, these apps will run not only on Google Chrome OS, but on any standards-based browser on Windows, Mac and Linux thereby giving developers the largest user base of any platform.

Google Chrome OS is a new project, separate from Android. Android was designed from the beginning to work across a variety of devices from phones to set-top boxes to netbooks. Google Chrome OS is being created for people who spend most of their time on the web, and is being designed to power computers ranging from small netbooks to full-size desktop systems. While there are areas where Google Chrome OS and Android overlap, we believe choice will drive innovation for the benefit of everyone, including Google.

We hear a lot from our users and their message is clear — computers need to get better. People want to get to their email instantly, without wasting time waiting for their computers to boot and browsers to start up. They want their computers to always run as fast as when they first bought them. They want their data to be accessible to them wherever they are and not have to worry about losing their computer or forgetting to back up files. Even more importantly, they don’t want to spend hours configuring their computers to work with every new piece of hardware, or have to worry about constant software updates. And any time our users have a better computing experience, Google benefits as well by having happier users who are more likely to spend time on the Internet.

We have a lot of work to do, and we’re definitely going to need a lot of help from the open source community to accomplish this vision. We’re excited for what’s to come and we hope you are too. Stay tuned for more updates in the fall and have a great summer.”