Google's Chrome OS begins in netbook PC market.(operating system, personal computer)(Brief article)

Taipei, Nov. 26, 2009 (CENS)--Debuting its first PC operating system Chrome, Google, the world's largest Internet search engine operator, is going to zero in on the netbook PC segment as its strategic step into the global OS industry to fend off Microsoft.

In order to quickly boost popularity of Chrome OS in IT (information technology) and related industries, Google has released the OS's source code free of charge to hardware developers. So far, globally leading PC brands, including Acer, Asus, HP, Lenovo and Toshiba, have moved to develop new notebook PCs and netbook PCs to be installed with the newest OS.

In fact, Google's ambition to venture into the PC OS industry emerged early this year when Acer launched its Timeline series netbook PC at Computex Taipei 2009, which is the world's first netbook PC installed with Google's Android OS. Presently, Android has been vastly used in smartphones. Succeeding in extending its business into the OS industry in the form of launch of Timeline, Google confidently debuts Chrome.

Google claims that Chrome's boot time is only three seconds, the speediest among existing OS, and the system is developed based on the cloud computing concept and hence will automatically store users' computer data in online servers. Insiders believe that the OS, with the cloud-computing feature, is very likely to bring revolution to the industry and threaten Microsoft's Windows in the future. At the moment, Microsoft commands over 90% of the global market for PC OS, with its newest OS Windows 7 just on the product shelf.

Viewing the growing trend of netbook PCs worldwide, Google opines that a good OS should be developed to meet users' increasingly intense need for access to the Internet and Chrome will differ from Windows in such a way.