Yesh, after goobbling up sooo many sites over the years...Google has decided to now slide into a new sector: Creating a new OS!
Thkfully, they're creating this new OS for netbooks for now and much of the inspiration comes from their web browser, Google chrome. Users have complained time and time again of the times when computers used to run so fast when they 1st bought them but slowly got dicey in its performance after much usage.
With the key elements being speed,simplicity and security, Google is reaching out to the open source community to assist them. Ultimately, their goal would be to create a browser to be fast and lightweight, to start up and get you onto the web in a few seconds.
Will this be a success like their search engine or will it be a faint echo like their browser launch?? Well we shall find out when the tentative launch of Google's Chrome OS the middle of next yr...