Google has announced at Computex 2010 that its upcoming Chrome OS for personal computers also known as Chrome cloud operating system, is slated for a Q4 2010 release, as it aims a competitive strike at rival Microsoft’s well established Windows OS for PC.

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Google is seeking to challenge the predominance of Microsoft’s Windows operating system, which currently runs on more than 90 percent of all personal computers worldwide but considered by security experts as more vulnerable for threats from virus and hacking threats due to its inherent buggy code structure.

Google claims that providing open source platforms will allow the market to make the best determination about what operating system will work best in the mass market.

The initial release of Chrome system has been designed to work on laptop PCs, Sundar Pichai, Google’s head of the Chrome project told reporters at the Computex PC show.

Chrome OS for personal computers is believed to leverage web apps, HTML5’s offline modes, background processing, and notifications, company claims.

Google also indicated that the Chrome Web Store will also open at the same time (around Q3 this year) to enable users download Web applications that can be installed on the Chrome OS for personal computers.

Interestingly, only Acer was recently rumoured to be amongst Google’s first manufacturing partners for Chrome OS – a rumour that the laptop maker was quick to scotch. Google said ‘but we expect to hear more announcements on that front very soon’.

“Chrome OS for PC is one of the few future operating systems for which there are already millions of applications that work,” Pichai said. “You don’t need to redesign Gmail for it to work on Chrome. Facebook does not need to write a new app for Chrome.”

The Chrome operating system will be centred around the web browser, with all software including high-end applications such as those used in photo and video editing housed in external servers known as a cloud.

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