CHROME OS HISTORY 

1. Google announced Chrome OS on July 7, 2009 

2. To ascertain marketing requirements the company relied on informal metrics Developers 

3. also noted their own usage patterns 

4. Google released Chrome OS's source code as the Chromium OS project 

5. demonstrated an early version of the operating system which take less space and can be pinned for easier access 

6. The launch date for retail hardware featuring Chrome OS was delayed from late 2010