Google vs Microsoft --ChromeHeads up Balmer, The boys at Google are on the hunt. Larry and Sergey are planning a strategic strike at the heart of Microsoft’s flagship product, Windows.

In a recent announcement on The Official Google Blog, Google says they are ramping up a new hopeful in the OS market — Chrome OS.

If Chrome OS runs with speeds anything like Google Chrome (the browser), then Microsoft is staring up the nose of a 300-pound gorilla.

Web surfing in 3 seconds? Google has this to say:

Speed, simplicity and security are the key aspects of Google Chrome OS. We’re designing the OS to be fast and lightweight, to start up and get you onto the web in a few seconds.

Google is banking on their vision of web-everything. No more local data on your workstation. No more backups. Lower hardware compatibility problems. Portability. In other words, park everything you have on the internet:

They want their data to be accessible to them wherever they are and not have to worry about losing their computer or forgetting to back up files. Even more importantly, they don’t want to spend hours configuring their computers to work with every new piece of hardware, or have to worry about constant software updates.

Google is promising us security, speed and functionality with Chrome OS. These are all areas of daily computing that in some way or shape have given us all lousy experiences with Microsoft.

With cloud computing taking a firm hold on the internet and broadband speeds bouncing higher and higher, there’s little reason why Google’s vision can’t come through to reality.

Just imagine-
Flip your computer on and in a few brief seconds be on the web surfing, checking email and plowing through your daily computing needs. Insane concept, but now closer to reality — thanks to Google.

Microsoft, however, isn’t just sitting idle on the secure browser sidelines watching all this Google hype go down. They’re chalk-boarding their own game plan for a ‘multi-principle OS’ code named, Gazelle.

This takes the browser [or OS?] wars to an all new new level in the tit-for-tat software battle. Gentlemen, choose your operating weapon.