Google to start open-source Chrome OS in 2010.

Yahoo is developing an open-source operating-system targeted at Internet-centric computers for example netbooks and will release it later this season, the company said Thursday.

The OS, which will carry a similar "Chrome" name as that company's browser, is anticipated to begin appearing on netbook computers in the second half of 2010, Google said in a blog post.

It is already speaking with "multiple" companies about this project, it added.

The Chrome OS will be available for computers according to the x86 architecture, which is often used by Intel and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), plus the Arm architecture.
Prototypes of Arm-based netbook computers began appearing last month at the Computex show in Taiwan and Google's support for any architecture could give it a large boost. Microsoft's mainstream Windows operating-system doesn't run on Arm chips so many manufacturers were talking with regards to using Linux or your version of Google's Android operating-system. It's not immediately clear the amount of the two operating techniques share in common value but Google said there're aimed at very various devices.

"Google Chrome OS is really a new project, separate from Android, " it reported. "Android was designed in the beginning to work across a range of devices from phones to be able to set-top boxes to netbooks. Google Chrome OS is being created those of you that spend most of their time on the net. "

While Google is initially taking a look at the netbook segment in the market it might compete with Microsoft and Apple at larger, Internet-centric machines.

Chrome OS is "being designed to power computers ranging through small netbooks to full-size pc systems, " said Search engines.

The heart of Chrome OS could be the Linux kernel. Applications, and this can be written in standard Website programming languages, will run inside Google Chrome within a new windowing system. They're going to additionally run inside your Chrome browser on Windows, Mac or Linux units, meaning that a one application could run on any kind of computer.

Wide support for your platform will be key to becoming developers involved and, as a result, an important factor in its amount of success.

"We have loads of work to do, and we're definitely going to need loads of help from the open-source community to try and do this vision, " Google said in its blog post.

For end users Google promised an improved computing experience on machines with faster access to e-mail, fast boot-up situations, access to data from anywhere and also the end of problematic electronics configuration, software updates as well as security issues.

"We are going to the basics and fully redesigning the underlying security architecture belonging to the OS so that users don't experience viruses, malware and security updates. It should just simply work.