There were lots of rumors about a new operating system from Google and now Google team has officially confirmed it. The Official Google Blog has announced about "Google Chrome OS":
It's been an exciting nine months since we launched the Google Chrome browser. Today, we're announcing a new project that's a natural extension of Google Chrome — the Google Chrome Operating System. It's our attempt to re-think what operating systems should be.
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.
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.
Google Chrome OS is being created for people who spend most of their time on the web, and is being designed to power computers ranging from small netbooks to full-size desktop systems.
Stay tuned for more updates in the fall and have a great summer.
So guys! Get ready to test drive the new OS from Google...
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ian
wow AWESOME
Tangmeister
This is soooo exciting...
Love this idea... but what would MS do?
Jovy
I think Microsoft will stay strong because it has a very strong foundation, especially now that windows 7 is coming, which is a very good Microsoft OS since XP in my opinion.
The right question I think is what will apple and other OS do?
Tyler
Basically, this is Linux with a new windowing system. Not much fundamentally radical here.
Jared
I agree with Tyler, it's just another x-windows system over top of Linux.
EP
Can we dual-boot this like we do with Window 7 RC?
Someone
Is this real or are you JOKING?!?!?!?!?!?!?
Kwesi C.
Like previously stated by Tyler, all it is, is Linux with a new windowing process and Google slapped onto it. Nothing more, to be honest.
astitva
cool.i m excited about it
Xonrick
I completely disagree with Jovy because there is no opearating system that can compete with Mac OS X...Windows is sharing the greater market share because it is universal and Mac OS X is only compatible with only Apple hardware..otherwise windows wont even survive in the os market..it is a shame to all the operating systems...