We know it’s coming as part of their grand plan. So, let us all welcome the Google Chrome Operating System.
Sundar Pichai, VP Product Management and Linus Upson, Engineering Director formally announced the highly anticipated OS via the Official Google Blog. Pichai explained the nature of this new project:
Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010. Because we’re already talking to partners about the project, and we’ll soon be working with the open source community, we wanted to share our vision now so everyone understands what we are trying to achieve.
Google Chrome OS will run on both x86 as well as ARM chips and we are working with multiple OEMs to bring a number of netbooks to market next year. The software architecture is simple — Google Chrome running within a new windowing system on top of a Linux kernel. For application developers, the web is the platform. All web-based applications will automatically work and new applications can be written using your favorite web technologies. And of course, these apps will run not only on Google Chrome OS, but on any standards-based browser on Windows, Mac and Linux thereby giving developers the largest user base of any platform.
Originally posted on July 8, 2009 @ 1:30 am
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Microsoft will undoubtedly always hold the majority of the market for pc computers the way they are currently without a major hardware or paradigm shift. Microsoft will not falter.