With Google gaining market share in every web related products with their Google Apps, it was quite obvious that they would bring out an OS of their own. That's right, Google today announced their official entry into the OS market with their "Google Chrome OS". Unlike Windows, the new OS from Google will be 'an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks'. However, as the product evolves with time, it is inevitable that the new OS will find it's way to full-size desktop systems. For now, Google has announced that their new OS will work on both x86 as well as ARM chips and we'll see the OS in action sometime in 2010 on a number of netbooks from multiple OEMs. The architecture behind the OS would be a new windowing system on top of a Linux kernel.
For those of you wondering about the overlap with Android, the company is very well aware of that and claims, "we believe choice will drive innovation for the benefit of everyone, including Google". Now that Google has officially entered the OS market, neither Microsoft nor Apple would be seriously disturbed as this is just an announcement and nothing more. However, both the companies wouldn't take this so lightly since this is Google we are talking about. First it was Google Wave and now this, the engineers at Google now have some real main stream products to work on this year apart from Android and the company's dedication to Open Source really pleases many of the developers outside Google as well. We have to wait and see if Chrome OS can be a real winner or just another Linux distribution as it is really too early to conclude anything with just an announcement. Hit on the read link for the official news on Google's blog post.
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