Google to roll out its own Operating System

Google sounded out earling this morning that its going to take Microsoft head on by launching its own Operating System. Google said, “Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010. ” Google said that it’s an extension of its web browser Chrome and the reason behind the idea is to work from the scratch because all the OS that’s available in the market were designed before the Internet phenomenon caught on and they were not designed keeping in mind the web. Google believes that it can come up with an OS which is nimble, fast and secure for people to get on the web and do what they want to do - they needn’t wait for minutes before they open their browser and visit a website.

How does this impact Microsoft? You will find your Dells, Sonys and Lenovos shipped with Google OS instead of Microsoft Windows which would mean that Microsoft will not rule your desktop and it will lose its captive audience. But, I’m sure Microsoft will rise up to the challenge and will have its own “Light” edition of Windows but it can’t afford to ignore the threat considering that though Google is starting with the Netbooks, they will slowly aim at the PC market. And Google will definitely get on board a whole lot of Open source providers so that the notebooks (they call it the netbooks) that have Google OS will also come with a lot of Open Source softwares that would replace Word, Excel, etc to lure the end users.

And the Enterprise customers and corporates will not move away from Microsoft very easily. But, on the home front users would love to have choices. Won’t you?

You can read the official announcement from Google at:

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/introducing-google-chrome-os.html