Official Google Blog: Introducing the Google Chrome OS

7/07/2009, Official Google Blog was announcing a new project that's a natural extension of Google Chrome — the Google Chrome Operating System.

According to the blog, Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year Google 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. Google Chrome running within a new windowing system on top of a Linux kernel. For application developers, the web is the platform. All web-based applications will automatically work and new applications can be written using your favorite web technologies. And of course, these apps will run not only on Google Chrome OS, but on any standards-based browser on Windows, Mac and Linux thereby giving developers the largest user base of any platform.

Source: Official Google Blog: Introducing the Google Chrome OS