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Google to launch operating system

  • 08-07-2009 9:46am
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    blackgold>>
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    Google to launch operating system
    By Maggie Shiels
    Technology reporter, BBC News, Silicon Valley

    Chrome logo

    Google is developing an operating system (OS) for personal computers, in a direct challenge to market leader Microsoft and its Windows system.

    Google Chrome OS will be aimed initially at small, low-cost netbooks, but will eventually be used on PCs as well.

    Google said netbooks with Chrome OS could be on sale by the middle of 2010.

    "Speed, simplicity and security are the key aspects of Google Chrome OS," the firm said in its official blog.

    The operating system, which will run on an open source license, was a "natural extension" of its Chrome browser, the firm said.

    For Microsoft the news comes just months before it launches the latest version of its operating system, called Windows 7.

    'Back to basics'

    "We're designing the OS to be fast and lightweight, to start up and get you onto the web in a few seconds," said the blog post written by Sundar Pichai, vice president of product management, and Google's engineering director Linus Upson.

    Both men said that "the operating systems that browsers run on were designed in an era where there was no web" and that this OS is "our attempt to re-think what operating systems should be".

    To that end, the search giant said the new OS would go back to basics.

    "We are 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," said Google.


Comments

  • #2
    ntlbell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,288 ✭✭✭✭ntlbell


    is this not about two years old news?


  • #3
    blackgold>>
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    dunno


  • #4
    Pygmalion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,082 ✭✭✭Pygmalion


    ntlbell wrote: »
    is this not about two years old news?
    No, it's less than a day old.
    About 2 years ago someone misquoted them or exaggerated a story about them having a custom Linux distro for their developers and they spent weeks denying that they had plans to release an OS.

    This is a new one centred around their browser Chrome (which itself is less than 2 years old) which they actually HAVE said they'll be releasing.


  • #5
    ntlbell
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,288 ✭✭✭✭ntlbell


    i must of been listening to google nerds in the longstone


  • #6
    paulboards
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14 ✭paulboards


    Next year will be too late. Vista is rubbish and uncle Bill wont sell XP anymore. Now is the time to be releasing an OS. If it cannot run any windows, linux or apple software then it is going to fail on proper PCs. Cloud computing is great in theory but in reality thunderstorms are common.


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  • #7
    Pygmalion
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,082 ✭✭✭Pygmalion


    paulboards wrote: »
    Next year will be too late. Vista is rubbish and uncle Bill wont sell XP anymore. Now is the time to be releasing an OS. If it cannot run any windows, linux or apple software then it is going to fail on proper PCs.
    It's not aimed at proper PCs (maybe they'll expand on it though), it's aimed at super cheap netbooks that are pretty much incapable of running anything more than a web browser, and are for some reason getting kind of popular.


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