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Google answers long-standing rumours about cloud-based operating system with Chrome OS

The newly announced open source OS will be open source, feature redesigned security for the web age, and be aimed at netbooks... and Microsoft.

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Computing | by Barb Dybwad | Wed Jul 8, 2009 9:51AM | 0 comments

In the world of tech this news is huge — passing of a pop legend style huge. Rumours surrounding Google working on a cloud-based desktop operating system have swirled in the technosphere for some time; some thought perhaps Android was the road to that answer. And yet, there's more — Chrome OS is to be completely redesigned from the ground up around the transformative world wide web primarily to run on netbooks, will be an open source product, and will run on x86 architecture (and ARM) to the surely utter horror of the Microsoft execs who will undoubtedly face sleepless nights and ulcer meds figuring out how to answer this one.

Me? I'm giddy like a schoolgirl. I can't wait to try this thing when builds start to become available, most likely sometime next year.

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