Google Inc. has claimed that, its highly anticipated operating system, Google Chrome OS will prove to be the fastest operating system ever devised, with a boot time of just seven seconds. The announcement was made at a huge gathering where Google gave the first glimpses of its in house built OS to the world.

Google had announced its plans for a completely revolutionary operating system for desktops and notebooks about four months ago, a statement dropped a nuclear bomb on one of the biggest OS developers in the world, Microsoft, who had launched its much anticipated Windows 7 operating system just over a month ago.

As Google had claimed the preview of the Google Chrome OS clearly shows that, its OS is heavily dependent on the internet, with virtually all the applications requiring network access. The user interface of Google Chrome OS is in shape of a browser, instead of a traditional stand alone operating environment that provides a host of offline capabilities to the users.

The all new Google Chrome OS is expected to hit the markets near the end of the year 2010 and will be available on specific netbooks that will be comprised of the hardware supported by the Google OS. These netbooks will be able to run the operating system only with an active internet connection as the user data and other services will be stored on internet servers, instead of local hard drives.

A bigger news for the users across the internet spectrum is that, Google will be providing the new operating system absolutely free of cost. The availability of free Google Chrome OS isn’t anything new on the part of Google, as the company is famous for introducing awesome web services without charging a penny.

Via Reuters.