Google announced that its operating system will be modest and lightweight, with most of the user experience taking place online. This description suggests something similar to the handful of OSs dedicated tocloud (that is, Web-based) computing that have emerged over the past few years. Read more...

Reading Steve Ballmer's comments about Google Chrome OS, I'm struck by how odd some of his ideas are. Like what constitutes a brand new operating system, for instance. He also appears to think One Size Fits All is a good way to develop software. Read more...

Google followed up on Thursday's announcement of a Linux-based Chrome OS for netbooks by listing nine technology partners that are supporting the open-source platform. Read more...

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. Because we're already talking to partners about the project, and we'll soon be working with the open source community, we wanted to share our vision now so everyone understands what we are trying to achieve. Read more...