Google has announced the development of Google Chrome OS on their official Blog.
Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010.
And as we did for the Google Chrome browser, we are going back to the basics and 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.
Pretty ambitious goal.
Yesterday Google Chairman of the Board and CEO Eric Schmidt was interviewed by Marketplace Host Kai Ryssdal. Does Google always do good?
Transcript here. As might be expected privacy issues were discussed.
