Google launches Google Chrome OS

While VMware wants its hypervisor to be the OS, Microsoft wants its Windows to be the OS, here we have Google going after the browser, something Microsoft saw early in the 90s in Mosaic. Microsoft saw the hypervisor scare a bit later but its really pointing its guns at VMware and soon it will go after VMW full blast with its Hyper-V release.

In the meantime the guns are changing again and Google wants to make a run for it with Chrome which left the beta very soon. Google is serious and we will soon notice how effective their strategy will be. Chrome is still to be accepted by the user community. IE is losing market share but only to Mozilla.

It’s been an exciting nine months since we launched the Google Chrome browser. Already, over 30 million people use it regularly. We designed Google Chrome for people who live on the web — searching for information, checking email, catching up on the news, shopping or just staying in touch with friends. However, the operating systems that browsers run on were designed in an era where there was no web. So 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. Because we’re already talking to partners about the project, and we’ll soon be working with the open source community, we wanted to share our vision now so everyone understands what we are trying to achieve.

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.

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