Google is developing an open-source operating system targeted at Internet-centric computers such as netbooks and will release it later this year, the company said Wednesday. The OS, which will carry the same “Chrome” name as the company’s browser, is expected to begin appearing on netbook computers in the second half of 2010, Google said.
The Chrome OS will be available for computers based on the x86 architecture, which is used by Intel and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), and the Arm architecture.
“Google Chrome OS is a new project, separate from Android,” it said. “Android was designed from the beginning to work across a variety of devices from phones to set-top boxes to netbooks. Google Chrome OS is being created for people who spend most of their time on the Web.”
While Google is initially looking at the netbook segment of the market it might compete with Microsoft and Apple on larger, Internet-centric machines.
Chrome OS is “being designed to power computers ranging from small netbooks to full-size desktop systems,” said Google.
The heart of Chrome OS is the Linux kernel. Applications, which can be written in standard Web programming languages, will run inside Google Chrome in a new windowing system. They will additionally run inside the Chrome browser on Windows, Mac or Linux machines, meaning that a single application could run on almost any computer.
Checkout more at:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/introducing-google-chrome-os.html
http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9135276/Google_to_launch_open_source_Chrome_OS_this_year
http://www.pcworld.com/article/168141/google_chrome_os_will_reshape_desktop_landscape.html
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