Research firm iSuppli is calling Googles Chrome OS a direct challenge to Microsofts growing market for netbook software. Prime for cloud computing, Chrome OS is targeted at netbooks which iSuppli expects to see grow to shipments of 36.3 million units by 2012.
– Google chief executive Eric Schmidt recently declined to discuss the possibility of a rivalry between Microsoft and Google, which will be shipping a new operating system, Chrome OS, later this year.

Analysts from research firm iSuppli, however, are predicting that
Google is ready to take on M…