Google Chrome OS: Operating System.

Google Chrome OS Project has been launched as will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010.

About Google Chrome OS
Google OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will be targeted at netbooks. l The open-source code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010.

Google OS Features:
Speed, simplicity and security are the key aspects of Google Chrome OS.
Chrome OS is going back to the basics and completely redesigning about security architecture of the OS so that users would not have to deal with viruses, malware and security updates.

Google Chrome OS will run on both x86 as well as ARM chips and will be in fuction with multiple OEMs.


Google Chrome running within a new windowing system on top of a Linux kernel
All application will run not only on Google Chrome OS, but also on any standards based browser on windows, mac and linux by giving developers user base of any platform.

source: googleblog