Google Chrome Operating System - under development currently operating system by Google, designed for netbooks and device processors ARM. [2] Officially, this OS is nowhere and never presented itself, all the information about it is limited to statements of representatives of Google in the press. First netbook is supplied with Chrome OS, expected in the second half of 2010. Chrome OS is built on the Linux kernel using a browser, Google Chrome, working in a new, specially designed windowed interface. Source system will be open until the end of 2009.

Google Chrome Operating System - under development currently operating system by Google, designed for netbooks and device processors ARM. [2] Officially, this OS is nowhere and never presented itself, all the information about it is limited to statements of representatives of Google in the press. First netbook is supplied with Chrome OS, expected in the second half of 2010. Chrome OS is built on the Linux kernel using a browser, Google Chrome, working in a new, specially designed windowed interface. Source system will be open until the end of 2009.

We mentioned this morning in an earlier post that Google announced that they are to launch Google Chrome OS some time in 2010. Google Chrome is a browser and is used by millions around the world; this is because it performs much faster than Internet Explorer.
Google thought that they would build from this and offer an Operating System version of its popular browser. The open source code for Chrome OS will be released towards the end of 2009, which is perfect timing for when Microsoft launches Windows 7.

Google Chrome has always been a little more than a browser: it's optimized for running web applications, each tab runs as a separate process, the interface is minimalistic and there's even a task manager. "We realized that the web had evolved from mainly simple text pages to rich, interactive applications and that we needed to completely rethink the browser. What we really needed was not just a browser, but also a modern platform for web pages and applications, and that's what we set out to build," said Google in September 2008.

Google's blog announces a natural extension of the Chrome project: an operating system for netbooks. "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. (...) 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."