Chrome OS: Google's lightweight OS for netbooks based on its innovative browser

Google announced yesterday that is working on an exciting Operating System project, called Chrome OS. Please see below some highlights I selected from their official blog post:

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.

Speed, simplicity and security are the key aspects of Google Chrome OS. We're designing the OS to be fast and lightweight, to start up and get you onto the web in a few seconds. The user interface is minimal to stay out of your way, and most of the user experience takes place on the web.

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.

FLYABYTE will certainly stay tuned for future news related to this important milestone for Cloud Computing.

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Image credits to e-maniacs.