IE is to Windows as Google Crome is to Google OS.

Thats right. Google has officially announced that it has plans to jump on the operating system band wagon that Microsoft had been able to ride and steer since the commodification of the PC it self. The software, which will be called Google Chrome Operating System, will likely be pre-released later this year and as a standard OS on a number of the industries many ‘net books’ available in the upcoming year. Google states that “Speed, simplicity and security are the key aspects of Google Chrome OS”, all things Microsoft has redundantly received flak for. Netbooks running the software will go on sale in the second half of 2010.

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