Google is now going to celebrate its Chrome success at Google I/O moving over super hit mobile interface Android. Google announced that its Chrome OS has achieved 160 million active users up from 70 million the previous year. It also announced that Google “Chromebooks”, the new range of notebooks from Google based on Chrome OS are being launched by Samsung and Acer next month. It may be a huge blow to Microsoft. These devices are scheduled to be available for sale by mid June.


In reference to pricing strategy, Google also announced that monthly subscriptions for Chromebooks will begin at $28 per user for business and $20 per user for educational institutions.

With Chromebooks, users will be able to access Gmail, Google Docs, and Google Calendar offline. And that is the dawn of a new era in the Internet when the giant of the Internet is announcing its increasing supremacy on the existing champion Microsoft.

According to Google:

These are not typical notebooks. With a Chromebook you won’t wait minutes for your computer to boot and browser to start. You’ll be reading your email in seconds. Thanks to automatic updates the software on your Chromebook will get faster over time. Your apps, games, photos, music, movies and documents will be accessible wherever you are and you won’t need to worry about losing your computer or forgetting to back up files. Chromebooks will last a day of use on a single charge, so you don’t need to carry a power cord everywhere. And with optional 3G, just like your phone, you’ll have the web when you need it. Chromebooks have many layers of security built in so there is no anti-virus software to buy and maintain. Even more importantly, you won’t spend hours fighting your computer to set it up and keep it up to date.

At the core of each Chromebook is the Chrome web browser. The web has millions of applications and billions of users. Trying a new application or sharing it with friends is as easy as clicking a link. A world of information can be searched instantly and developers can embed and mash-up applications to create new products and services. The web is on just about every computing device made, from phones to TVs, and has the broadest reach of any platform. With HTML5 and other open standards, web applications will soon be able to do anything traditional applications can do, and more.

In addition to this ambitious expansion bid, Chrome Web Store would now be available in 41 languages for free apps around the world.

This revolutionary step from Google is bound to create ripples in the industry and is considered to be a blow to Microsoft’s declining Internet Explorer.