The vice president of product management at Google has said in an interview at the Web 2.0 Summit in San Francisco that the Chrome OS will be designed in light of the best features of the Chrome browser.
“Chrome has been doing very well for us,” Sundar Pichai said, adding the browser has about 30 million users worldwide a year after a release.
But in response to a question regarding the new Chrome OS, he said everything would be based on the browser and that it would be developed considering the developments in personal computing worldwide.
“The goal with both our efforts is to get great free open source software stacks out there,” he said.
“Web apps are our core platform. You write something that works on the browser, it works on Chrome OS. We describe Chrome OS as Chrome on top of Linux, with a new windowing system. As a user, you don’t install software, you don’t maintain software.”
Patrick Stafford is a freelance journalist and a former deputy editor of SmartCompany.
