Finally, the day for Google to open up its cards in front of mainstream media has come. Google is to announce much hyped Chrome OS and let all of us know the expectations we should keep from them. As promised earlier, this event will be kind of a tech preview of the operating system and will detail further plans of its launch.

According to rumor mill, Google would release Beta version of Google Chrome OS today but our guess is that the beta launch will take some more time to happen. Lets see what’s in Google store today.

We’re going to LIVE BLOG the event scheduled for today, 10 am at Google HQ so come back right here for Chrome OS event details.

• Sorry folks but there is going to be no beta today. The actual Google Chrome OS is still 12 months away from its mainstream launch.
• Sundar Pichai is now talking about Google Chrome’s achievements in terms of radical growth(over 40 million users within an year), high browsing speed and regular bug fixes. Chrome for Mac and Linux are in the pipeline, he says.
• Google Chrome OS team is figuring out a secure way for Web based applications to take advantage of the desktop OS in the same way that desktop applications do, says Sundar Pichai.
• As expected, every application on Chrome OS will be a web application(NO DESKTOP APPS). The emphasis will remain on providing high level of security, lightening speed and 100% fidelity. By fidelity, he refers to an instance that If someone loses his Chrome machine, he should go buy a new chrome machine and that’s it ! My computing experience would remain exactly the same it was earlier.”
• Chrome OS is basically Chrome browser with everything else on the cloud. All applications open in tabs and there are ‘panels’(described as persistent light windows) as well.
• Quick demo of Chrome OS UI is shown to us..It seems just fine…cool and lightweight.
• Speed, simplicity and security are the three main points Chrome OS will be based on.
• Sundar Pichai is done with his introductory speech and handing over the next part to Matt Papakipos
• Chrome OS eliminates the need of booting up. The browser gets auto-launched the moment we switch on the machine. The OS will self-update itself to stay aware of any security patches available and does the job by itself.
• From firmware to the OS kernel, things remain protected with a cryptographic signature ensuring a secure bootup. Malware detection and removal are automated.
• The existing system allows same level of system privileges to apps as given to users. This is entirely different when we talk about web based OS. The apps are web based and hence the privileges to web apps are never system based, which makes everything much secure and controlled in web based OS environment.

• Chrome OS’s file system is pretty much locked as it’s a read-only root file system. All user data is encrypted and synced to the cloud. PC would be utilized for caching your data but the ultimate stuff remains cloud based.
• It won’t be that easy to download and install Chrome OS on just about any machine. The hardware specs are an issue and Google is very much in talks with hardware manufacturers to settle down with a min. hardware requirements for Chrome OS. Chrome OS is expected to be ready by the fall of 2010.
• Q&A session starts..some interesting questions coming up….you catch the video embedded below :

Finally, the prime time has come. Google has finally decided on the date for the early preview launch of Chrome OS this thursday. This preview will include

• Development progress on Chrome OS
• Complete Chrome OS overview
• Future plans on official OS launch
• Scope and scalability

The complete event will be conducted by Sundar Pichai, VP of Product Management and Matthew Papakipos, Google Engineering Director for Google Chrome OS. The event will end with a Q&A session and our guess is that the Q&A will be most interesting to look out for.

Finally, it seems that Google Chrome OS is about to go mainstream by early next year so its great for us that we will have more to write about the stuff our website is all about.

Stay tuned…we will bring you byte-by-byte event details as they happen on thursday.

Over the entire week that just passed by, the whole blogosphere appeared to be resonating an announcement on the Official Google blog : Introducing the Google Chrome OS

Finally, we will soon be witnessing an Operating System from Google built around Google Chrome, hence the name Google Chrome OS. It will be somewhere in 2010 when we all would actually have a preferrable alternative to Windows OS.

So far, there was absolutely no competiton for Microsoft in Operating system market(implying no options for the consumers). Apple’s Mac was busy serving a minority of computer users across the globe (around 4-5%) and may continue struggling, majorly due to its Hardware dependency issues. One shouldn’t even count Linux as a Windows competitor, as the open source OS never really managed to go beyond a certain usage level, mainly due to its poor User Interface, sophisticated functionality and non-familiarity with the masses.

There’s no witness required to conclude the fact that Windows Vista was a forced deal by Microsoft to its millions of religious userbase. In spite of Hardware incompatibility, poor performance, low efficiency and plenty of other ‘dark spots’, Windows Vista was heavily promoted as a preferrable upgrade but it didn’t take much time for the users to realize that Windows Vista wasn’t worth its cost.

Knowing the loop holes that Windows Vista had, the only reason why millions of users still upgraded their Operating systems from XP to Vista (or were simply sold Windows Vista by the hardware OEMs) was because of a lack of a better alternative to Windows Vista.

Many thanks to Google for providing all of us with an better alternative that we now can look upto. Welcome Google Chrome OS !

Is Google Chrome OS a Windows Killer ? Will it kick Microsoft Windows out of the OS market in 2-3 years from the day it officially releases ? Absolutely NOT.

Microsoft Windows is currently the De-facto standard in OS market. From hardware drivers to third party software applications, Windows has been a proven compatible Operating system for years now. The developer relations and overall OEM market is single handedly governed by this Software Godzilla. Windows 7, the much hyped operating system from Microsoft is set for release later this year. And building an Operating system, capable of  knocking out Microsoft Windows may even take generations of innovation.

And Google knows all this stuff quite well already. Still coming up with Google Chrome OS ?

Google is really not looking to challenge Microsoft all the way but want to capture the OS market stepwise, starting with an area where it can leave its impact the most, the Netbook Industry.

As Google Chrome OS will be built around Google Chrome, this would-be OS will rely mostly on Cloud services, Web apps and the concept of Webtop (think of Desktop) to make all things happen on the web, not on the desktop. It will primarily attract those, who live their life on internet and use their OS as just a medium to access the web browser, the actual door to the seemless world of internet.

As Netbooks have been the worst sufferers of Windows Vista due to Hardware incapability issues, the Google Chrome OS will address the urgent need of Netbook industry by providing a lighter, faster, more efficient and best of all FREE operating system to this upbeat industry.

Google is already busy working with major Netbook OEMs such as Acer, Adobe, ASUS, Freescale, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, and Toshiba, to finally come up with an Operating system, capable of being a preferred alternative to Windows OS.

Google Chrome OS is an open source project and will therefore be opened to developers later this year, to help making Google Chrome OS, as compatible and driver-friendly as Windows OS.

In the end, we have to admit that Microsoft has certainly realized its Deadliest competitor possible.(just think of any company, capable of challenging Microsoft in its own homeground(OS Industry) and you would end up with nothing else but Google).