Chrome OS is a sort of Web operating system that boots up a netbook in a fraction of the time it takes to start today’s existing computers, with Web applications loading in just a few more seconds. Google is trying to make the Chrome OS load time closer to that of a television than a computer. To do that, Google cut out several computer booting processes, and Chrome OS is geared for Flash-based storage. Security is also unique. The Web apps will run on application tabs within Chrome OS, which users will access with one click and manage in persistent windows if they so desire. The first Chrome OS netbooks won’t appear until 2010, going head to head with Microsoft Windows Azure devices.
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Google
released its formerly mysterious Chrome Operating System to open source Nov. 19.

While geeks the world over may be playing with the code, helping
to mold the finished product, those who attended or watched the launch event
remotely learned more about Google’s vision for th…