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Google Building Chrome OS Straight into Windows 8 via the Metro UI

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Google’s Chrome browser is probably our first choice, since most of us are probably using an Android device right now. Chrome is a great browser, for me it’s faster and much more stable than Internet Explorer and Firefox. Which is a major reason why I love the Chromebook and Chrome OS idea so much. Since I spend most of my day inside Chrome, that’s really all I need. Or at least most of what I need. The Verge  is reporting this afternoon that over the past few weeks Google has been updating their developer version of the Chrome browser to run what’s essentially Chrome OS within Windows 8′s “Metro” mode. Normally, Chrome just runs natively on the desktop like it does in previous versions of Windows. But you can also set it to launch within the Windows 8 “Metro-style” mode. These updates are massively different from what’s in the stable build right now, and it’s creating essentially a Chrome OS experience on top of Windows 8. The latest developer channel release the interface and functio