Google Plans to Introduce a PC Operating System http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/08/technology/companies/08operate.html?_r=1&hp
In a post on its company blog, Google said the operating system would initially be aimed at netbooks...
It said the open-source software, called Chrome OS, would be available in the second half of next year.
Google has already developed an operating system for mobile phones, called Android. And several manufacturers of netbooks are also using that software.
Google has long promoted a vision of computing in which applications delivered over the Web play an increasingly central role, replacing software that runs on the desktop. In that world, applications run directly inside an Internet browser, rather than atop an operating system, the traditional software that controls most of the operations of a PC.
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