Google's Chrome OS and Internet security

Posted by kent on July 9th, 2009

The web is abuzz with Google's announcement that it's developing an operating system that will not be susceptible to malicious code. The operating system (or OS), is the basic software that makes your computer run. Google is touting its as-yet-unreleased Linux-based system as superior to Microsoft Windows, the world's most popular OS that's famous for its vulnerabilities.

But don't start worrying about learning a new OS yet, because so far no one knows if Google plans on making it run on your desktop computer. So far it seems like it's just going to run on netbooks (computers that use shared applications distributed over the Internet), but the announcement is sufficiently vague to have people wondering if it will be a rival for Microsoft's OS. Google has already challenged Microsoft in websearch, email, web browsing, and Office-type applications. Google is probably betting that soon the whole world will run on netbooks anyway, so the argument will be moot. Still, there's some controversy about whether Google can really make a system that's invulnerable to malicious code.

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