New Delhi: To tap the fast growing web and
personal computers market, internet giant Google is working on
an operating system, a move that is likely to pose a stiff
challenge to Microsoft's dominance.
"We are working on an operating system... we feel, when
other operating systems became part of the Web, the world was
not connected the way it is today," Google Global Sales
Operations and Business Development President Nikesh Arora
said.
"Whether our operating system replaces the existing ones,
I don't know. Customers will choose that," he said in a conference.
In July, Google announced plans to launch its own
operating system for personal computers. The planned open
source 'Google Chrome Operating System' is expected to be
available in the second half of 2010.
Microsoft has about 90 per cent share in the global
market for operating systems.
"Google Chrome Operating System is an open source,
lightweight operating system that will initially aim at
netbooks... Later this year, we will open-source its code, and
netbooks running Google Chrome Operating System will be
available for consumers in the second half of 2010," Google
had said in a blog.
The blog, which was written by Vice-President (Product
Management) Sundar Pichai and Engineering Director ELinus
Upson, said the operating systems that browsers run on were
designed in an era where there was no web.
Bureau Report
First Published: Friday, October 30, 2009, 21:23