Lets be honest! the rumors of Google making an OS have been there since Adam and Eve made it into this world but with the announcement of Google Chrome web-browser, everything came to a rest.
That's where the actual story begins and after all this years of speculation, Google has finally announced that it is working on an operating-system that is being dubbed as the Google Chrome OS. According to Google, this OS is an attempt to rethink what operating systems should be.
Here is what Google has to say about the OS.
We designed Google Chrome for people who live on the web — searching for information, checking email, catching up on the news, shopping or just staying in touch with friends.
So basically the Google Chrome OS will be linux-based lightweight operating system that is a natural extension to the Google Chrome project and will mainly focus on providing an environment to make more use of web-apps and is therefore targeted towards Netbooks, though a desktop version shall be available later on.
So what about Android? Google believes that Android and Google Chrome OS might overlap in some areas but in the end, Android is an OS for phones while Google Chrome OS is an operating-system for netbooks to full-size desktops.
Google Chrome OS will be available for Netbooks by mid-2010 for mainly the x86 architecture.
This will be an interesting product by Google, something that users have been looking forward for long. Though another linux-distro by the name of gOS is already available which also focuses towards web-apps more than traditional desktop apps.