Google Prepares to Launch Google Chrome OS
Google has introduced Google Chrome OS, its new operating system project on the Google Official Blog on the evening of July 7.
Sundar Pichai, Google’s vice president of product management and Linus Upson, engineering director at the search giant, said Google sought to build an operating system designed for the web, because “the operating systems that browsers run on were designed in an era where there was no web.” So Google came up with the Google Chrome Operating System, which is “a natural extension” of the company’s Google Chrome browser, the duo said.
According to the Google Blog post:
“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.”