Editing Netbook (section)

===ChromeOS===
In 2011, [[Google]] introduced [[ChromeOS]], a Linux-based operating system designed particularly for netbook-like devices marketed as "[[Chromebook]]s". The platform is designed to leverage online services, [[cloud computing]], and its namesake [[Google Chrome|Chrome]] [[web browser]] as its [[Shell (computing)|shell]]—so much so that the operating system initially used a full screen web browser window as its interface, and contained limited offline functionality.<ref>{{cite news|last=Smith|first=William|title=8 Things You Need to Know About Chrome OS|newspaper=Pcgamer |url=http://www.maximumpc.com/article/features/8_things_you_need_know_about_chrome_os|publisher=MaximumPC|access-date=May 14, 2011}}</ref><ref name="WSJ: Google to Launch">{{cite news|last=Sherr|first=Ian|title=Google to launch Chrome Laptops in June|url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703730804576317361801753874|access-date=May 11, 2011|newspaper=Wall Street Journal|date=May 11, 2011}}</ref> Later versions of ChromeOS introduced a traditional [[desktop metaphor|desktop]] interface<ref name="TechCrunch: new UI">{{cite news|last=Lardinois|first=Frederic|title=Google's Chrome OS Will Soon Look More Like Windows Than A Browser|url=https://techcrunch.com/2012/04/09/googles-chrome-os-will-soon-look-more-like-windows-than-a-browser/|access-date=June 2, 2013|newspaper=Techcrunch|date=April 9, 2012}}</ref> and a platform allowing "native" packaged software written in [[HTML]], [[JavaScript]], and [[CSS]] to be developed for the platform.<ref name="InfoWorld packaged apps">{{cite news|last=Samson|first=Ted|title=Google entices Chrome OS developers with prospect of native-like apps|url=http://www.infoworld.com/t/application-development/google-entices-chrome-os-developers-prospect-of-native-apps-218773|access-date=June 5, 2013|newspaper=InfoWorld|date=May 16, 2013}}</ref>