Project Athena finally predicts some L flavour for Chrome.

About a couple months back, Google unveiled Project Athena that is intended to bring a new User Interface and Window Manager to Chrome OS. After then we seldom heard about advancement in the project. Only till now.

"Athena is a brand new project the Chromium OS team is experimenting with in order to bring a new kind of user experience."

Today +François Beaufort  unveiled on a Google+ post the new look for window manager in the Chrome OS.

Window Manager on Athena build

What can be made out from the look is that it bears much resemblance to the Android L's recent apps view. Windows stacked over each other. The look sure makes us think of more resemblance of Android L to be ported to Chrome OS like the notifications. Syncing your Android's notifications on your Chromebook with the new Android L notification bar UI would be so cool. That's just a personal preference though but looking at this UI forces me to think if it would be more difficult now to navigate through windows in Athena when you'll first have to go to Window Manager and then select the window than what we already use and are accustomed to. Changing tabs is much more easier by just clicking the desired tab instead of this approach (If ever this approach is undertaken).

Recent Apps screen on Android L

We still can't be so sure as to what Google's Chromium OS team has planned for Athena but I personally think Google will surely come up with a totally different method of interacting with your browser. After all its the same company that has showed the potential of a browser to be used as an entire OS.

Chrome OS team is hiring.

Chrome OS is essentially a full blown chrome browser designed on the Linux kernel to work as an OS for cheap hardware running web applications.

Chrome OS unlike other full OSes gets regular updates from Google even for smallest change and the best thing is that you don't have to do anything. Chrome OS has evolved greatly since it was first announced like getting offline document editing, saving media for offline access and a lot other stuff.

Evolution reminds me of the post I saw on Google+ by +Albert Bodenhamer. Google is hiring more employees for its Chrome OS team.

In the time when companies like Microsoft and others are cutting jobs, Google is hiring more people to develop its rival platform to Microsoft. Chrome OS has taken a significant market share of laptops chiefly because its super affordable. And with the rumours of MediaTek working to provide its chips for Chromebooks, prices getting even lower, it's be interesting to see what Google has for us cooking in their kitchen.

With Google wanting to hire more employees, we'll be seeing more Chromebooks, a better Chrome OS and cheaper ones too, if Mediatek is successful enough to provide chips to Chromebooks.

You can see the original post here.

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