New Operating System from Google : Google's Chrome OS for Netbooks.

One or two years back there were rumors about Google working on an Operating System. Well it is no more a rumor now.

Today the Google Team have made a post in their official blog about Google's new operating system called Google Chrome OS designed exclusively for the Netbooks and Internet experience.

Few points from that post:

• Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system
• This operating system will be initially targeted at netbooks (so that means they have plans for complete version of PC OS - direct competition with Microsoft!!!)
• This Operating System will be available to customers in the second half of 2010.
• Speed, Simplicity and Security are the key aspects of Google Chrome OS' design.

Here is the link to the blog post by Sundar Pichai of Google Team.

Netbooks seems to have gained some good popularity in the recent times. Though Microsoft claims that about 96% of the Netbooks run on Windows - their Windows Vista is of no use to these devices that have very low resource profile. Windows 7 was expected to offer better experience in Netbooks. It is interesting as Google is also planning to launch its new OS during the same time.

If Google coule bring the easy-to-use feeling of Windows into their new Open source OS- I will be happy!!!

The New Google Chrome TV ad...

This is the new TV advertising campaign from Google to promote its web browser - Google Chrome. This ad is being shown across some parts of the US



Google Chrome made some impact when it was launched, but after that I feel it had failed to some extent to its competitors like Internet Explorer and Firefox. I think for this reason, Google have got into this traditional advertising - which they had avoided for many years.

According to the Google team, this ad was made as a fun project by the Google Japan team but was later planned to be used for TV ads.

The ad looks nice!!

Why Chrome??

Almost everyone is excited ( just like a thalaivar's new movie) about the launch of Google's Browser Chrome. From the first sight, the UI is attractive and the pages are loading much much faster than Firefox and IE.

However this is only the beginning - Chrome has a long way to go to match FF.

btw, why this name Chrome???

Did some search and found from the internet that Chrome was an highly anticipated Multimedia project from Microsoft, which was later put to end of life. Is this name Chrome from that Chrome?

or is there some relation with our Chrompettai in Chennai???

but one thing for sure, these days my mind is thinking about absolutely useless things ;-)

UPDATE: Browser is build over an open source project CHROMIUM

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