Yesterday, Google has pulled off the curtain over it's new invention: Chrome OS. And, before anyone there asks, yes! "OS" stands for Operating System (why would anyone put any doubt on Google). Plus, we are not talking about an operating system runing into a browser (WebOS or WebTop) as you could find in G.ho.st or DesktopTwo.
Google is building a full-fledged operating system designed to provide instant access to the internet. The main objective is get from shutdown to ready-for-browsing in a few seconds. And it will be available for free and open source! It will target most on netbooks, where it may let Microsoft eating dust, but may also run on desktops.
Guess its not the end of Microsoft's reign, but it's a step in this direction.
Read the full anouncement on Google's Blog.
UPDATE: Plenty of netbook OEMs had adhere to the new OS. According to telecoms.com, "The web giant said that Acer, Adobe, ASUS, Freescale, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, and Toshiba had all signed up to get involved in the Chrome OS either on a hardware or software level."
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