On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 7:48 PM, PhistucK<phist...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Bearing the upcoming Chrome OS in mind, this should be taken into account
> quite strongly.
> Regular programs will probably not move cleanly and nicely from Windows to
> Chrome OS, but, at least, Google products should migrate seamlessly, without
> any data loss (and passwords are a very important part, too), in my opinion.
> Having a specific export option for passwords only (only during the
> transition, only when the profile is not used anymore in the former OS),
> even unencrypted and then re-encrypt them when Chrome on the new OS finds an
> old profile from another platform - could be some sort of a solution.
> ☆PhistucK
Indeed, I suspect that "regular Windows programs" will have a very
hard time migrating cleanly to ChromeOS, and I somehow doubt that
profile portability would be the hardest step.
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 23:20, Dan Kegel <d...@kegel.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 12:59 PM, Jeremy Orlow<jor...@chromium.org> wrote:
>> >> I really like the idea of being able to move people between
>> >> operating systems and just bringing the profile along
>> >> without having to export and import...
>> >>
>> >> (seems to me there are online services that offer that
>> >> convenience, but being able to do it with the raw file
>> >> is cool.)
>> >
>> > In what scenarios would this be useful? If it's easy to do, it'd be
>> > cool,
>> > but it seems like this would have a very small minority of users.
>>
>> When migrating users between operating systems. Say,
>> a company decides to migrate all its office workers from
>> Windows to Linux. Or if somebody installs Ubuntu on
>> a Windows machine on its own; I believe they try
>> to migrate settings when you do that.
>>
>> One goal of Chrome was to make operating systems not matter;
>> one way to do that is to make the profile file (mostly) portable.
>> - Dan
>>
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