Sunday, July 12, 2009

Google enters the OS war

After the success of Google Chrome Browser(Around 30 million users so far) google has announced its next project on Google Chrome Operating System. With this google enters the battle with industry giants like Microsoft. Windows has always been a popular choice among its users but for the past few years OS like Mac OS X and Linux are posing to be a great threat to it. Now with the announcement of Google OS it is interesting to see how things go in the near future.
Google has already launched its mobile OS Android and is the turn for the big thing.
The OS will be open source , light weight and web ready. Initially it will be targeted for notebook.

Specification & features of Google OS

i) Platform: Both x86 and ARM chips are supported.
ii) Kernel: Linux kernel
iii) Almost all web based application will be supported.

The OS will be available in the second half of the 2010. It is almost certain that with Google behind the project the OS will boot fast be web ready within seconds. Hope to see a revolutionary OS shortly.


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