Google Chrome OS To Launch Within A Week

In July of this year, Tech Crunch reported that Google dropped a Nuclear bomb on Microsoft, And It's Made of Chrome.

Today Tech Crunch reported that it is set to launch within a week.

On Googles Blog, it is stated;

Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010. Because we're already talking to partners about the project, and we'll soon be working with the open source community, we wanted to share our vision now so everyone understands what we are trying to achieve

Google is being very tight lipped about the launch, and in fact has no official word on its Chrome site.

Possibly being aimed at the Notebook/Laptop/Netbook market, this new OS coming into any market has a lot of rungs to climb up the ladder of success. Can Google skip a few ? Will it take two steps forward and three back ? Only time will tell.