Google’s smashing new operating system Chrome arrived  for the public. And as expected, the OS has become an instant hit with bloggers and tech enthusiasts.

Chrome is not your average operating system that forces to you be stuck with a desktop, in fact Google’s OS is almost completely browser based and its focus is to get you started with the web as soon as possible. The best part? The OS boots in just seven seconds. So does that mean it is doom for Microsoft Windows? We can’t say yet, but Google certainly knows how to humble Microsoft, and in the age of real time networking and media, a fast OS is just what the doctor ordered.

Google is all for making the web as user friendly as possible, and the company is ready to invest as much as possible for the same. No wonder why Google created an OS that is web-based. The fact is that you are always browsing when you’re using Chrome. The apps in Chrome load in seconds, and since every one of them is a web app, your web experience effectively becomes faster and smoother. And the damn thing is for free!

Here’s how Google describes Chrome OS on their blog: ‘First, it’s all about the web. All apps are web apps. The entire experience takes place within the browser and there are no conventional desktop applications. This means users do not have to deal with installing, managing and updating programs.

Second, because all apps live within the browser, there are significant benefits to security. Unlike traditional operating systems, Chrome OS doesn’t trust the applications you run. Each app is contained within a security sandbox making it harder for malware and viruses to infect your computer. Furthermore, Chrome OS barely trusts itself. Every time you restart your computer the operating system verifies the integrity of its code. If your system has been compromised, it is designed to fix itself with a reboot. While no computer can be made completely secure, we’re going to make life much harder (and less profitable) for the bad guys. If you dig security, read the Chrome OS Security Overview or watch the video.

Most of all, we are obsessed with speed. We are taking out every unnecessary process, optimizing many operations and running everything possible in parallel. This means you can go from turning on the computer to surfing the web in a few seconds. Our obsession with speed goes all the way down to the metal. We are specifying reference hardware components to create the fastest experience for Google Chrome OS.’