Google adding ‘Chromoting’ remote desktop functionality to Chome OS?

Well, this one’s come a bit out of left field, but it looks like Chrome OS could be set to get a pretty big new addition: a remote desktop feature dubbed “Chromoting” (at least for now). That word comes courtesy of an apparently authentic message from Google software engineer Gary Kačmarčík posted on a Chrome OS mailing list, which goes on to explain that the feature would let you run “legacy PC applications” right in the browser, and that it would be “something like” Microsoft’s Remote Desktop Connection. No more details than that, unfortunately, nor is there any indication that the feature will actually be included in the initial release of Chrome OS that’s launching this fall, with Kačmarčík only going so far as to say that Google is “adding new capabilities all the time.”

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