Google announces plans for its own O/S
8 July 2009Yesterday, Google announced that it is planning on developing its own computer operating system:
Challenging Microsoft‘s grip on PCs, Internet search giant Google said late Tuesday night that it intends create its own computer operating system.
Google (GOOG) said the OS is initially aimed at netbooks — small, cheap and incredibly popular sub-notebooks — and would be an “open source” project built with and by many developers.
FROM GOOGLE: Company statement on its plans
Google is currently meeting with hardware manufacturers to aprise them of its plans, and hopes to have it on computers by the second half of 2010.
Google has denied for years any interest in taking on Microsoft (MSFT) or Apple (AAPL) with its own operating system, but Tuesday took a new direction.
In a blog post on the official Google blog, Google positioned the new Chrome Operating System as the “natural extension” of Chrome, the Internet browser Google introduced to acclaim in 2008 and which now has 30 million users.
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