Google Inc is get readying to launch an operating system for personal computers next year.Called the Google Chrome Operating System, the new software will be targeted at netbook computers and be fast and lightweight, allow users to access the Web in a few seconds, Google said in a statement on Tuesday.
Netbooks running the new operating system - based on open-source Linux code - will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010, Google saidGoogle also said Google Chrome OS was a latest project, does nothing with Android mobile operating software found in smart phones.
"All web-based applications will automatically work and new applications can be written using your favorite web technologies," Sundar Pichai, vice president of product management at Google, said in the Google blog.
Google also gave information about how it works -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.
Source:googlebloghttp://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/introducing-google-chrome-os.html
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