As I wrote a few months back, Acer is likely to be the first hardware vendor to launch a notebook pre-loaded with Google’s new Chrome OS. Although Sundar Pichai, a Google product management VP didn’t confirm Acer would be there at launch, he did say that launch will be in the “fall of 2010″ (that’s the autumn to any brits reading this).
Pichai also said that the Google Chromium project does provide open-source code for any vendor to design hardware without bearing the Chrome OS name (of course… it’s OPEN SOURCE!) but devices wanting to carry the Chrome OS name, logo and buzz, will be required to work with Google in product development and marketing, or to obtain Google certification.
When asked about where Google thought it was going in developing two (very different) operating systems, Pichai said that Android starts from hand-held devices with development toward multi-functions whereas Chrome OS is for PCs and Google’s development of Chrome OS focuses on 10- to 12-inch notebooks (AKA netbooks).
We’re still pretty light on readers here but do let me know if you’ve got any more info on this.
