(CHROMEOSZONE.COM) — So, what is to be gained by the announcement of the Google Chrome OS? It was just 10 months ago that Google announced the browser, Google Chrome. It was said at the time they didn’t want to takeover the market, they just needed a platform to develop their google application suite and hoped it would lead to innovation among the browser market as a whole. Since then, the browser market has caught on fire. Microsoft launched IE 8.0 from beta and Mozilla Firefox is now on verison 3.5 with its own built in private browsing.
In comes Google which has picked a great niche market, the Netbooks. In the 4th Quarter 2008, it was reported that Netbooks outsold iPhones for the first time. Although Netbooks are an expoding market, the Apple spokeperson at the last 2 quarterly conference calls repeated that that Apple has no intentions of getting into the low-end market for low-powered machines.
Google is web driven and apparently, Google engineers would like the Chrome operating system will allow for running programs written for the Web, not for the OS itself. The Chrome OS is targetted for release in the second half of 2010. More about the Google Chrome OS announcement can be read at the Official Google Blog.