It’s official! Google will bring a new OS to the heavily underpopulated market. According to Google, it will be based on Linux with parts of Googles own smartphone OS, Android. I for one applaude this initiative. Microsoft has dominated the market for operating systems for way too long. It’s time that somebody else stepped in. Obviously, Chrome OS will face similar problems as Linux, the biggest being ofcourse the apparent lack of business-grade software. In that segment, Microsoft will probably loose little to no market-share. However, in the market for netbooks and UMPC’s, Google can take quite a piece of the market, taking into account that most netbooks will not run Vista or Windows 7.

Let’s say I cannot wait to try this new OS.

[Update @ 16:46] Somebody pointed out that Microsoft will create a specialized version of Windows 7 for netbooks

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