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I just read the paper today that Google Inc. is preparing to launch an operating system for personal computers, a direct assault to software giant Microsoft Corporation which has long dominated the market software that runs PC applications. Google said that the software will be based on its Chrome web browser and will be available in 2010. The software will be open source too like Android, another OS from Google for phones.

According to Google the software will be based on the core of Linux – its kernel in programming parlance – the Chrome OS, as it is called, will add new layer of windowing software to manage what a user sees on display screen. Instead of requiring programmers to write programs specifically for the operating system – an uphill battle at a time developers have many choices about where to focus their efforts. – the Google engineers said that the Chrome operating system will simply run programs written for the Web. 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, the Google executives wrote.

Goodluck Microsoft. In my office we are using Ubuntu and it’s good. The only problem with Ubuntu is that some applications such as Photoshop is not supported yet. Goodbye Windows.

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