Google Announces Operating System: Google Chrome OS!
July 8th, 2009 
Business, Innovation, New Media, Research 
Mark Kizelshteyn
It’s finally here. Google announced the long awaited operating system – we all knew this was coming in the same way we knew that Apple was going to come-up with a revolutionary phone and ipod.
The official Google Blog writes:
“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….
…Speed, simplicity and security are the key aspects of Google Chrome OS. We’re designing the OS to be fast and lightweight, to start up and get you onto the web in a few seconds. The user interface is minimal to stay out of your way, and most of the user experience takes place on the web. And as we did for the Google Chrome browser, we are going back to the basics and completely redesigning the underlying security architecture of the OS so that users don’t have to deal with viruses, malware and security updates. It should just work.”
The OS will run on both x86 as well as ARM chips, and Google is working with a number of OEMs to introduce netbooks to the market next year! The architecture is going to be based on a Linux kernel.
I can’t wait to see this!
Tags: Google, Google Chrome, Net Book, Operating System
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