Google has launched an assault on Microsoft's dominance of personal computers by announcing a new operating system.Google Chrome OS will be vacant on netbooks - laptops designed on behalf of snarl browsing - from the instant partly of 2010.
It will be virus-free and allow quick access to the internet, Google alleged.
The search engine company laid down the gauntlet on its allowed blog and asked on behalf of the help of the "open-source" unity. Their OS - the interface stuck between a computer's user and its hardware, which hosts applications - will be based around the Chrome browser. The Chrome browser, which was released next to the purpose of go on day, at this time has a lesser amount of than 1% of the souk.
This is significantly behind Microsoft Internet Explorer's 70% and other rivals Apple Safari and Mozilla Firefox.
Microsoft has alleged 96% of netbooks make use of its OS - a numeral Google intends to demolish.
"This is Google dropping the protect of bombs on its chief rival, Microsoft," the TechCrunch blog concluded.
"And it's a genius participate. So many colonize are exchange netbooks entirely instantly, but are running Windows XP on them. Windows XP is eight years old."
Ben Camm Jones, the news editor of Web User, believes the "open-source" nature of the OS is considerable.
"It likely to be released so it'll be charismatic to all hardware manufacturers, so we ought to date a profit range of netbooks running Chrome OS in the instant partly of 2010," he told Sky News Online.
"As long as as much as necessary manufacturers think it is valuable to offer systems running Chrome OS, it follows that we may perhaps date widescale adoption," he added.
Nonetheless, other commentators imply it may perhaps take several years on behalf of Google to cash the lifestyle of consumers.
