Google Corporation plans to release the Chrome OS by the end of the year, said Sundar Pichai, Vice President of Google, at the Computex computer exhibition, which took place in Taiwan.

According to Mr. Pichai, who supervises the Chrome project at Google, the first version of the OS will be developed especially for laptops. At the same time, the company will be quite selective in terms of the future distribution of the platform at the market.

It is also expected that the free Google OS will be made compatible with Microsoft’s systems which dominate 90 percent of the computer operation systems market. Google’s Chrome internet browser will be in the basis for the Chrome OS. Mr. Pichai also points out that from the very first day of release of Chrome OS, several web-applications supported by the browser will be available for the platform.

Google announced its plans concerning the creation of its own Linux-based OS in 2009, , (and it will be oriented to work in the Internet?).

In November the company demonstrated the OS and revealed its source code for developers. It was also revealed that Chrome OS will support HTML5 and Flash technology.

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