Google Announces PC Operating System - Chrome OS to Compete with Windows. Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010. Chrome OS, targeted at netbooks and those who spend most of their time on the Web. Google Chrome OS will run on both x86 as well as ARM chips. There certainly have been experiments and even product launches in the Web-based computer operating system marketplace before.

These smaller, faster, Web-centric operating systems are made especially to power smaller, nimbler and easily transportable Web-enabled devices like Netbook computers.Essentially, the OS is a small, fast-booting platform whose purpose is to run a browser, and from there all the Google apps and other web services you know and love.

The new Linux-based OS - Chrome is expected to run on both netbooks and desktops. But they concentrate more in netbooks. In order for Google to seriously challenge Microsoft’s dominance, it needs two things. First, it needs to be seriously awesome. Second, it needs to be compatible with Windows Apps.

- It will be Free. Chrome will be free as in Open Source. Microsoft has had a history of conflict.

- Runs on ARM. Unlike Windows, Chrome OS will be running on ARM as well as X86. This represents it will be compatible with smartbooks. ARM-based laptops will be fast, very power efficient, cooler to run, be able to last for days on a single charge and integrate tons of features.

- It will be more secure. Whoever using Chrome Browser can feel it.

- Speed. Google is promising boot times measured in seconds, not minutes, so battery life should also get a boost — it will be possible to cold boot instead of sleeping or hibernating the machine, saving precious juice.

- Netbooks are not only the World - Netbooks may be important, but they remain a tiny part of the world's PC sales. However, operating systems have been given away for years now and Microsoft has persisted. Linux accounts for about 1 percent of the OS market today, and has already lost the battle for netbooks. And there is a reason for that: It isn't Windows.

- Compatibility Matters. Both hardware and software was the major reason why the world anointed Microsoft its King of Computing

There is an Good Domination of Microsoft in the past years on the OS Industry. The monopoly leader faces an competition with Google. 

Google has shaken up the operating system business quite a bit, with nothing more than an announcement of a future product. It will be interesting to see how this all plays out over the next year or so. 

Is it Microsoft again or Google ????