One of my gripes about using Chrome OS is that it always felt a bit too much like a browser, so I wanted to treat it like one. While the entire behavior hasn’t changed, Google announced Tuesday a UI update to the OS which makes things feel a bit more like a traditional OS so as to better work with your long-held behaviors. The update takes the Apps list keeps it in the bottom left, akin to the Windows Start menu, but the size of the list is now more compacted so that it’s not going to cover up whatever you’re looking at in the browser. Read the full story at The Next Web.