| There have been rumors circulating all over in recent past about Google releasing an Operating System.Now this has been officially confirmed by Google yesterday through their blog as Chrome Operating System. The Chrome OS is conceptually different from any normal OS like Windows family or Linux family.It is a new project that's a natural extension of Google Chrome browser.Google Chrome OS will run on both x86 as well as ARM chips. |  |
This will be a new, lightweight operating system, designed from the ground up — not based on Android — and originally targeted at netbooks.Netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010.
The announcement rightly points out that the major operating systems available today were designed before the web existed. With most people’s computing activity centered on the web today, a new OS that makes the web the platform makes a lot of sense.It might be just a web or cloud OS that makes most of it’s work in web and a light work in host.For people primarily using web apps, a lightweight operating system designed for working on the web with instant access to all of your applications and most of the heavy lifting done by the cloud could be perfect.
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.
Speed, simplicity and security are the key aspects of Google Chrome OS.They say that they’re designing the OS to be fast and lightweight, to start up and get you onto the web in a few seconds.
But let’s not get too excited just yet — Chrome OS isn’t expected to be available until the second half of 2010.
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