You didn’t have to deal with the typical hassles of computing, Nothing but the web, as Google would say. Sign in on any Chromebook, and you’ll find all your stuff there.Ĭhrome OS was secure, without the need for antivirus. Chrome Web Apps, extensions, and all of your content depended on access to Wi-F, the web, and your Google account. Unlike the extensive setup required on Windows PCs, it also meant Chrome OS devices were also completely shareable in seconds with a guest mode. It meant that devices with Chrome OS, which we’ve come to know as Chromebooks, booted in seconds. That might have sounded foreign, but that was part of what made Chrome OS unique. That is a system where most of your content lives online, away from an actual device running the OS. Google had introduced its own take on cloud computing to consumers. The Chrome user interface provided you to access the web. Everything in Chrome OS was based on the web, with “links” to your content, known as web apps. There were no programs to download or constant updates to check for. It wasn’t your traditional operating system. It was a full-on OS that consisted of a web browser and a web browser only.

Chrome OS was literally designed as an extension of Chrome. When Chrome OS was first released to the public in 2011, (following its preview as Chromium OS in 2009), Google banked on the success it saw with the Chrome web browser.

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