Google announced that it is working on a new Operating System called Google Chrome OS. Rumors that Google is working on an desktop OS which is based on Linux have been around quite a while. With the announcement of the Operating System Android, speculations about the desktop OS vanished. But Google did it again. Nine month ago Google introduced Google Chrome and surprised all of us, and now it does it again with Google Chrome OS.

There are already wild speculations about the what, why, and how on the Internet, but facts are pretty rare. Facts are that the OS will be launched next year, 2010, it will be Open Source (yeah!), and the community will be involved soon. Google Chrome OS will focus on mini netbooks and desktops. So there is an overlap with Android systems, but as stated in the Google blog post, they have different goals. Google Chrome OS (the name is a bit long I think) will focus on Web applications and performance. One thing is clear, when Google talks about performance, they are quite serious about it.

So it is longer only OS X vs Windows, odds are good will leverage Linux to worthy rival.
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