Harmless posted on the official Google blog last night and today the entire IT sector has sent huge waves. Google has announced that the dominance of the operating system after the battle has begun, the next battle. Linux will become their weapon of choice.
The Google blog often a major news Mountain View, CA company, and this information is no exception: Google plans to launch a new Chrome operating system, touted for their Google Chrome browser extensions start point.
Chrome browser released just nine months ago, has been proven to be a popular product, but not nearly as popular open source browser Firefox from the Mozilla project. The daily average market share of 22.1%, according to a recent Net Applications survey, Firefox, June, Safari 9.0 percent, while Chrome was 2.0%. Microsoft's Internet Explorer, AOS has slipped to 65.6% of the browser market.
The new Chrome OS will initially target netbooks, "according to vice president of product management Sundar Pichai said, and engineering director Linus Upson, after this will be a new operating system, which should be in the second half of 2010, natural target platform for consumers to prepare.
"Speed, simplicity and security are the key aspects of Google Chrome OS operating system is designed to be fast, light weight, start to online, so that your user interface is minimal to stay out within a few seconds. Their own way , and most of the user experience occurred as we did for the Google Chrome browser, we have to back to the basics and completely redesigned the underlying security architecture of the operating system, so users do not have to deal with viruses, malware and security on the network. update it should just work, "wrote Pichai and Upson. '
Sparse technical details of the announcement, but some of the key bits of information. The new operating system will run on both x86 and ARM chips, the new Chrome OS will be Linux-based.
"The software architecture is simple - Google Chrome running in a new windowing system on top of the Linux kernel for application development, the network is the platform for all Web-based applications will automatically work and new applications can use your most like network technology, of course, these applications will run not only on Google Chrome OS, but in any standard browser in the Windows, Mac and Linux, which for the developer to provide the any platform, the largest user group, "according to announcement. Google plans Chrome OS source code released later this year.
The blog entry is a very clear distinction between this from existing Andr iod project, another project from Google's Linux-based platform for new projects.
Android was designed from the outset, across a variety of devices, from mobile phones to set-top boxes, netbooks. Google Chrome OS is being created for people who spend most of the time on the network being designed power range of computers ranging from small netbooks to full-size desktop systems, "Pichai and Upson wrote," Although there are areas in the Google Chrome browser OS and Android overlap, we believe choice will drive innovation for the interests of everyone, including Google. '
The reaction from the IT sector is always along a theme: This is the top provider of the operating system, Microsoft is facing the biggest challenge. There is little evidence, This is not the case, Google had a strong foil Microsoft's business strategy.
In the meantime, Linux and other open-source community of developers and contributors busy blog entry concludes: "We have a lot of work to do, we will certainly need a lot of help of the open source community to achieve this vision."
