Google earlier this month announced its new plans to release a new Operating System that is sure to bitch slap the naughty and heavily bugged Microsoft windows. Nine months after the realease of the all so popular google chrome browser, the search engine mogul has decided to embark on a project that it hopes will catch us all in a wave just like (almost) all its products on the market. This time, targeting its fan club base – internet users and their sauve netbooks. 

Google is designing the OS to be fast and lightweight, to start up and get you onto the web in a few seconds. The user interface is minimal to stay out of your way, and most of the user experience takes place on the web. And as they did for the Google Chrome browser, they are going back to the basics and completely redesigning the underlying security architecture of the OS so that users don’t have to deal with viruses, malware and security updates. This really sounds like the kind of operating we have been waiting for, but will it deliver?

Google Chrome OS will run on both x86 as well as ARM chips . The software architecture is simple — Google Chrome running within a new windowing system on top of a Linux kernel. For application developers, the web is the platform. All web-based applications will automatically work and new applications can be written using your favorite web technologies. And of course, these apps will run not only on Google Chrome OS, but on any standards-based browser on Windows, Mac and Linux thereby giving developers the largest user base of any platform

All said and waiting to be done, we expect a robust system that will draw nothing but anger and frustration from Windows team, but deliver a smile to the end user, nothing beats freebies, especially ones which are as good as (or even better) than the pricey ones. At the end we (the customers) end up with the big smile…or so we think.