It was originally thought of as a BIG EVENT where Google was to announce their killer PC OS to directly go after Microsoft Windows. But ‘the kill show’ didn’t really happen. What DID happen last week was Google updating the market on their Chrome operating system for laptops and desktops. The first crop of computers powered by Chrome will start selling in mid-2011. Google’s CEO Schmidt believes Chrome OS is the third viable real operating system, one that breaks from the past, and looks into a cloud-services centric future that would re-define the idea of what an OS should be.
With Chrome, the Analysts are saying that Google has done a good job of executing on the idea of a “network computer,” offering a suite of cloud services. They are partnering with Acer and Samsung and they have new computers that will be handed out "to qualified users, developers, schools and businesses" (if in the U.S., you can apply- https://services.google.com/fb/forms/cr48advanced/). They'll be black and have no branding, logos or stickers. But Google did say they'd have 12.1-inch screens, full-size keyboards and touchpads.
