Google Greasing Chrome OS for Launch

Chrome, Google's planned operating system, is just about ready to hit the market, according to reports. The OS, which shares a name with Google's Web browser, was announced last July. It will be based on the Linux kernel and may become a significant rival to Windows 7 in the netbook computer space.
Google will release its Chrome operating system for download within a week, according to a report in the blog TechCrunch, which sited an unnamed source.
Launching the OS as soon as possible makes sense, said Rob Enderle, principal analyst at the Enderle Group. "I would expect the Chrome OS will show up shortly because they need the ecosystem ready by the end of 2010," he told TechNewsWorld.
That ecosystem consists of products from Chrome OS project partners, including Lenovo, Acer, Asus, HP, Toshiba and Qualcomm.
"It appears that Google's getting ready to finally put some muscle behind its Chrome OS bluster," Al Hilwa, program director of application development software at IDC, told TechNewsWorld. However, he reckons this is more hype than anything else.
"I get the sense that Google's trying to leverage the excitement around Windows 7 and get a bit of a 'me too' buzz," Hilwa explained. "Leaking out that it will have some alpha bits for the Chrome OS in a week is really a weak response to Windows 7."
Google did not respond to requests for comment by press time.

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