Google takes on Microsoft with Chrome PCs

Thu May 12 2011, 08:54 AM

Google is set to challenge Microsoft's dominance of the PC market when the first laptops running its cloud-based operating system Chrome OS go on sale next month. The "Chromebooks" - the first of which will be made by Samsung and Acer - are designed to function almost entirely on the web in a bid to accelerate the shift in computing away from hardware and into the cloud, where Google is already ahead of its major rival.

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