Event · Browsers and platforms

Google announces Chrome OS (2009)

Ten months after the browser, Sundar Pichai and Linus Upson announced on the official blog a lightweight open source operating system aimed first at netbooks. The architecture ran Chrome in a new windowing system on top of a Linux kernel, and the first devices were expected in the second half of 2010.

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July 7, 2009

Google Chrome OS announcement

Event · Browsers and platforms · Concluded

sources · timeline 2005–2009

Interpretive reconstruction · Web 2.0 Web 2.0 conventions (2005–2009): rounded corners, soft gradients, light blue bars and Verdana text. Does not reproduce any Google page.

Dates

July 7, 2009 Announcement · exact date [1]

What the sources say

Claim	Record	Confidence	Sources
Initial target	Netbooks	2 · Single primary source	[1] primary
Base	Linux kernel, with Chrome in a new windowing system	2 · Single primary source	[1] primary

What the confidence levels mean

Historical captures

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Sources

Introducing the Google Chrome OS — Sundar Pichai and Linus Upson — Official Google Blog, July 7, 2009. Source primary · accessed November 2, 2026 · look for a copy on the Internet Archive

What still needs documenting

First Chromebooks (2010–2014 block)

On GD

GD has followed Google since 2006. Search GD for “Chrome OS” (in Portuguese)

How to cite

"Google announces Chrome OS (2009)", Google Museum (GD), https://gd.eurisko.com.br/museu/en/collection/chrome-os-anuncio-2009/, CC BY 4.0. Reviewed on November 2, 2026.

ID: chrome-os-anuncio-2009 · Reviewed on November 2, 2026