Today Google announced that they have been devolping their own OS (seperate from Android) called the Chrome OS. This full blown operating system will be targeted at netbooks and other lightweight computers. The code will be open sourced later this year and released commerically in 2010.

Google is usuing a Linux kernal as the base and focusing on web apps in the OS. The OS will run on x86 processors and ARM chips as well. Google says that they hope the OS, “to be fast and lightweight, to start up and get you onto the web in a few seconds. The user interface is minimal to stay out of your way, and most of the user experience takes place on the web.”

It it’s pretty clear here that Google is taking a stab at Microsoft, and hopefully this new OS will take off and force Microsoft to realize that open source is the new standard.

And the announcement of this new OS also affirms my belief that Google is indeed Skynet.

Read the announcment on Google’s official blog here.