Great news! The Web is about to be revolutionized.
Google announced the development of a new operating system late Tuesday on its blog.
“We’re announcing a new project that’s a natural extension of Google Chrome — the Google Chrome Operating System,” the entry said. “It’s our attempt to re-think what operating systems should be.”
And if this development is similar to Google’s previous developments, Internet users around the world will enjoy the benefits of a relatively fine-tuned, versatile and stable product that is not prone to crashes or errors.
The operating system, which shares the name with its popular search engine, Google Chrome, will be an open source system — meaning the Web community as a whole could contribute to its development and growth — that will be targeted at netbooks — small, relatively inexpensive computers revolutionizing the personal computer industry — when it’s released in late 2010.
The technology giant reports that 30 million people use its year-old search engine regularly.
The announcement increases an already passionate competition between Microsoft and Google. Microsoft recently unveiled its new search engine, Bing.
“Speed, simplicity and security are the key aspects of Google Chrome OS,” the blog promised. “We’re designing the OS to be fast and lightweight, to start up and get you onto the web in a few seconds. The user interface is minimal to stay out of your way, and most of the user experience takes place on the web.”
The search giant has promoted a model in which applications would be run over the Internet as opposed to a personal computer’s hard drive radically changing the role of operating systems.
Best of all, Google promises to completely revamp the security architecture of the OS “so that users don’t have to deal with viruses, malware and security updates. It should just work.”
Google said that the new project is separate from its operating system known as Andorid, which was designed to work across phones and netbooks.
“Google Chrome OS is being created for people who spend most of their time on the web, and is being designed to power computers ranging from small netbooks to full-size desktop systems,” the blog said. “While there are areas where Google Chrome OS and Android overlap, we believe choice will drive innovation for the benefit of everyone, including Google.”
It remains unclear how difficult it will be to transform Chrome into an operating system. However, Marc Andreesen, who co-founded Netscape, told the New York Times that it wouldn’t be too difficult.
“Chrome is basically a modern operating system,” he said.
Unfortunately it appears that it will be a few more months until Google divulges more information. But once more information is released, you can be confident you will see it here. So be sure to check back.
