Google releases the open source new OS "Google Chrome OS" for personal computers

Google, which unveiled its own browser "Google Chrome" last September, announced that "Google Chrome OSWe are planning to release the "

Although it is an open source OS that realizes high security functions launched as a project separate from OS for mobile phones "Android", what exactly is it?

Details are as below.
Official Google Blog: Introducing the Google Chrome OS

According to Google's official blog, Google seems to have acquired at least 30 million users in nine months after publishing its own browser "Google Chrome".

And users use Google Chrome to search for information, browse news, shopping, e-mail, etc., but the OS of the PC currently used is designed in the era when there was no web Google will launch an OS called Google Chrome Operating System (Google Chrome OS) as a project to extend Google Chrome.

Google Chrome OS is open source developed, lightweight and simplified to make the web available in a couple of seconds, so that users do not suffer from problems such as viruses and harmful software , It is supposed to completely redesign the mechanism of security, and it is expected to be pre-installed and released on the low-priced mini-note "netbook" in the second half of 2010.

The reason for creating such an OS is that Google will allow users to receive e-mail instantly without waiting for the startup of the PC as in the past, and that PCs with the same performance as when they bought a personal computer It is said that they want to operate, do not require backup, and that they can access their data anywhere.

By the way, it seems that the release of additional information on "Google Chrome OS" will be autumn.