Google announces long-rumored OS

Google has announced a new Operating System, currently labeled "Chrome" that will launch in 2010. Initially, the new OS will launch on netbooks.

"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.
(Haven't we heard that line before somewhere?).

A number of sources are ecstatic at the news.
"This announcement is huge," said Rob Enderle, industry watcher and president of the Enderle Group.

"This is the first time we have had a truly competitive OS on the market in years. This is potentially disruptive and is the first real attempt by anyone to go after Microsoft.

"Google is coming at this fresh and, because it is based on a set of services that reside on the web, it is the first really post-web operating system, designed from the ground up, and reconceived for a web world," Mr Enderle told the BBC.

You can also see Google ChromeOS: have people given leave of their senses? for a different view.

Nothing will be out before mid-2010. Incidentally, LINUX was installed on all early netbooks but now has a 7% market share...

Also Chrome OS: Rusty by 2010?