CORP TALK: Nikkei Electronics has published a preview of Google’s Chrome operating system (OS), set for launch around the holiday season in end 2010. According to Google, the OS is made not to compete with Microsoft Windows on market share but to operate on netbooks and provide unrestricted Web access on the Cloud and a myriad of related applications.

Basically, with the browser acting as the interface, the OS sits atop a Linux kernel and has a reported boot time of just 10 seconds. The report indicated that five netbook manufacturers, including Acer, ASUS and HP, have already expressed interest to produce netbooks with Google Chrome OS.