Google (ticker: GOOG) announced the development of a computer operating system based on its Chrome Web browser. This is a direct challenge to Microsoft’s (ticker:MSFT) dominance in the OS market. The OS will be ready by the second half of 2010.
Google’s chrome-based OS will target low-end notebook computers called netbooks. Google is already competing with Microsoft in the area of net search engines. Microsoft Windows OS presently runs on 90% of the computers in the world. Microsoft recently announced its new Bing search engine which competes directly with Google.
Here is the story on the Official Google Blog on blogspot Introducing the Google Chrome OS
PC World has good insight into this move by Google: Google Announces Chrome-Based OS Read the comments.
