It’s not much, in fact, these screenshots are incredibly easy to fake. Still, a hastily constructed Wordpress blog has been setup to host what are claimed to be the world’s first screenshots of Google’s new Chrome OS — hailed as both a Microsoft Windows and Apple OS X killer or Google FUD generator depending upon who you’re listening to. As the story is told, a Google representative demonstrated a private beta build of the OS to an anonymous Acer part supplier yesterday, presumably somewhere in Taiwan. The picture above was grabbed breathlessly while the Google rep was distracted. Highlights of the demonstration break down as follows: The “elegant” install on the Acer Extensa 4620Z took about 10 minutes and 1 restart It was “amazingly fast” in its stripped-down beta form The blue orb on the auto-hiding “Chrome Bar” along the bottom of the UI is essentially the start menu Navigating the file system can be done in “exploration” (like Windows explorer) or “browser” (sear…[...]

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First Google Chrome OS screenshots leaked?