Everyone must have used the Google's Chrome browser which is an efficient light weight browser. Google went one step further as it always does, announced that it will be launching an OS . Ever since the announcement made by Google, there has been buzz all around.

Google Chrome OS is an open source project which will be a light weight when compared to the other OS available at present. Google states that initially it will be targeting the notebooks market. Acer, ASUS, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, and Toshiba are the partners who will be marketing their notebooks with this light weight OS. These notebooks hit the market later half of 2010 if everything goes as planned. Google chrome will be running on top of a Linux kernel with a new windowing system. Google says that the OS will be effective , secured and simple. The applications for the Chrome OS can be created using any known web technologies. The application not only works on this particular OS but can be used in other OS like Mac, Windows and Linux thereby the developer has the user base on all platforms. This is a cool thing as some applications running in one OS won't work in some other OS.

Now, the question is will it kick windows of the market?
Think Steve Ballmer will have an answer ! :P

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