Microsoft, Mac, here comes trouble
In 2007, I blogged that Google might be working on some operating system. At the time, speculation had it that Google might be working on something for use in computer operating systems - the domain traditionally held by Microsoft, Mac and to some extent, Linux.
Today, this speculation has materialised. Google was indeed working on an extension of its Chrome and is planning to use it for netbooks. Will it stop there? Who knows...?
Excerpt:
Google's blog announces a natural extension of the Chrome project: an operating system for netbooks. "Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010. (...) Google Chrome OS will run on both x86 as well as ARM chips and we are working with multiple OEMs to bring a number of netbooks to market next year. The software architecture is simple — Google Chrome running within a new windowing system on
top of a Linux kernel."


