New Google PC Software Promises To Start a Computer as Fast as Turning On TV New Google software will start up a computer as fast as a television can be turned on, the search company said on Thursday as it showed off its Chrome operating system designed for PCs that do their work on the Web.
Google gave the first public look at its Chrome OS four months after declaring its intention of developing the PC ’s main software, a move that pits it directly against Microsoft Corp and Apple Inc. True to Google’s Internet-pedigree, the Chrome OS resembles a Web browser more than it does a traditional computer operating system like Microsoft Windows, matching Google ’s ambition to drive people to the Web — where they can see Google ads.
Google said the software will initially be available by the holiday season of 2010 on low-cost netbooks that meet Google ’s hardware specifications, such as using only memory chips to store data instead of slower hard drives, the current standard netbooks running Chrome OS will only be able to run Web applications and the user ’s data will automatically be stored on the Web in the so-called cloud of Internet servers, Google executives said at an event at the company’s Mountain View, California headquarters.
