Google held a Chrome OS event yesterday at the their Mountain View office. Here are the findings:
- Its an open source OS
- Its very simple and lightweight, initially targeted to run on netbooks.
- Its basically a browser which is gonna run web apps
- Will support x86 and ARM processors
- You will have to buy Google approved netbooks to use it
- Will be release sometime next year
Here is the first official screenshot (click for a larger view):
Here is a 3 minute video from Google explaining the new OS:
The following 2 minute video will give a detailed look of the UI:
Read more and get involved at the Chromium open source OS page.
[via Official Google Blog & Gizmodo]