On the other hand there was the Mac OS, which was costlier.Linux was there trying to get hold of the OS market, and during that time google decided to come up with its own OS.
The chrome OS is planned to be an open source OS with fast access to the web. However it’s been a few years since this was first announced and the launch date for the retail hardware has been dated to be around mid-2011.
The OS uses C and C++ as its coding languages and it is Linux based. Its main features would be to be fast and simple as well as work exclusively with web applications.