Google Plotting PC Operating System

Heating up the seemingly never-ending battle for computer-world domination between Google and Microsoft, Google has announced plans for its own PC operating system, an in-your-face jab at Team Vista/XP.

Google has deemed its new brainchild Google Chrome OS, and yes, it's designed to be directly tied-in with its web browser, Google Chrome, which was released last year. The simplistically designed software's intended target audience is netbook users, a marketing strategy that makes sense: The speedy, pint-sized, recession-friendly netbook industry is taking off.

In their trademark method of making stuff web-centric, Google is lauding its OS as the next step for enabling more formerly desktop-limited applications to be also used online.

"All web-based applications will automatically work, and new applications can be written using your favorite web technologies," according to Google. As a bonus, the software will be released as open-source to allow outside programming modifications. Google says netbooks running Google Chrome OS will go on sale in 2010.

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