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Rumors
After co-founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page hired several Mozilla Firefox developers and built a demonstration of Chrome, Schmidt admitted that "It was so good that it essentially forced me to change my mind." Rumors of Google building a web browser first appeared in September 2004. -
CNET reports
In early January 2009, CNET reported that Google planned to release versions of Chrome for OS X and Linux in the first half of the year. -
Announcement
Google announced Chrome OS, describing it as an operating system in which both applications and user data resides in the cloud -
The Beginning
Google released Chrome OS's source code as the chromium OPS project -
The Switch
Google switched its development Linux distribution fir chrome Ubuntu to Gentoo Linux -
Chromium project
On January 11, 2011, the Chrome product manager, Mike Jazayeri, announced that Chrome would remove H.264 video codec support for its HTML5 player, citing the desire to bring Google Chrome more in line with the currently available open codecs available in the Chromium project, which Chrome is based on. -
The First Update
Google made the first update to Chrome OS's user interface since the operating systems had launch -
Android
On February 7, 2012, Google launched Google Chrome Beta for Android 4.0 devices. -
Windows
On November 6, 2012, Google released a version of Chrome on Windows which added hardware-accelerated H.264 video decoding. -
Cisco
In October 2013, Cisco announced that it was open-sourcing its H.264 codecs and will cover all fees required.
