


The software architecture is simple ? Google Chrome running within a new windowing system on top of a Linux kernel."Īs people use more and more web applications, the operating system becomes less important and it makes no sense to pay for it.

(.) 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. 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 is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Google's blog announces a natural extension of the Chrome project: an operating system for netbooks. What we really needed was not just a browser, but also a modern platform for web pages and applications, and that's what we set out to build," said Google in September 2008. "We realized that the web had evolved from mainly simple text pages to rich, interactive applications and that we needed to completely rethink the browser. Google Chrome has always been a little more than a browser: it's optimized for running web applications, each tab runs as a separate process, the interface is minimalistic and there's even a task manager.
