Search engine giant Google have a new operating system in production called Google Chrome OS, for use on home PC’s and netbooks. This is a direct challenge to the leading market operating system Microsoft. The new Google Chrome OS will initially be used on small netbooks with the aim of being used on PC’s as well. Sales of the netbooks with Google Chrome OS is said to be on sale in 2010.

Chrome OS was a direct extension to the Google Chrome browser and was announced to be launched just months before the launch of Microsoft’s new operating system, Windows 7.

So what makes Google Chrome OS stand out from Microsoft Windows? Google’s engineering director Linus Upson states that “We’re designing the OS to be fast and lightweight, to start up and get you on to the web in a few seconds…” He further adds on a blog written by Sundar Pichai that “the operating systems that browsers run on were designed in an era where there was no web”, making the new Google Chrome OS a project that attempts to rethink the way operating systems operate.