In case you were under a rock the past few days, Google recently announced their forthcoming web-centric operating system, Chrome OS. I’ve included some links at the bottom for those who haven’t read up on this major announcement, as I would not do justice to the topic by trying to write intelligently about it when so many others have.

Google also recently announced on their blog, via a helpful Chrome OS FAQ post, several industry players who are on board to support the netbook-oriented OS. Lenovo is in the list, as are Acer, Adobe, ASUS, Freescale, Hewlett-Packard, Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, and Toshiba. You can see three interesting camps within this list: PC manufacturers, chip manufacturers (although no PC-level chips, mainly ARM), and Adobe = Flash (and possibly other Adobe softwares). But who don’t you see on this list?

But what is the best part of this?

Is Google Chrome OS free?
Yes – Google Chrome OS is an open source project and will be available to use at no cost.

Rock on Google.

Sincerely yours,
Addicted Gmail, Google Maps, Chrome (browser) user

Gottabemobile – “Google Chrome OS: Winner and Losers” – interesting op ed
Gizmodo – “Giz Explains: What the Hell’s Google Chrome OS” – Giz doing what they do
Google Chrome blog