Google announced yesterday on its blog it will be launching an open-sourced operating system, Google Chrome OS. Hotting up the race for first place with Microsoft, it’s a direct challenge to the dominant Windows OS.
Google Chrome OS will be separate to Google’s existing mobile operating system, Android, and will be based off Google’s web browser, Chrome, which is regularly used by 30 million people after only nine months.
The system, which is launching later next year, will initially launch with netbooks, and after that the code will be open-sourced, with Google leveraging the knowledge and ideas of the developer community.
Google’s aim is to create a simple, fresh operating system tailored for the internet age, with most of the user experience being based on the web. Ambitious as ever, it states “we are going back to the basics and completely redesigning the underlying security architecture of the OS so that users don't have to deal with viruses, malware and security updates. It should just work.”
Being web based, information will be accessible to users wherever they are. Google claims the new OS will also do away with users having to worry about backing up their files or updating their software, making for an all-round improved computing experience, something which is certainly appealing to computer users of all levels of knowledge.
Watch this space.
- Sam
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