Google’s Chrome to take on Microsoft’s Windows
The very dynamics of how we access and relate to the Internet could alter dramatically once Google’s Chrome operating system is launched one year from now. This is especially because most of us have not seen any other operating system other than Microsoft’s Windows, which has a 90 per cent market share. Google shook up the tech community and the cyber world after posting an official blog recently. Google Chrome is a Web browser, nine month old, with a meagre penetration of below three per cent. “We are announcing a new project that’s a natural extension of Google Chrome ~ the Google Chrome Operating System. It's our attempt to re-think what operating systems should be”, the blog said. This year-end Google would release the code behind its operating system and the global tech community or the open source community would be free to alter or tweak the code till a full-fledged system falls in place. “Speed, simplicity and security are the key aspects of Google operating system. We are ...