GOOGLE'S CHROME OS DELAYED UNTIL 2011

While there have been rumors of a Chrome OS netbook arriving this month, Google’s Eric Schmidt has confirmed we won’t be seeing any this month, or next month, we may not even see one for several months in 2011.

Schmidt has stated that Google’s cloud operating system has suffered a delay. He made the remarks during a Q&A session at the Web 2.0 summit. What he wouldn’t say is what has caused that delay, and no one at Google is talking about it either.

The official line seems to be that Chrome OS won’t arrive for a few months yet, meaning we probably shouldn’t expect to hear anything until at least March. However, Mary-Jo Foley over at ZDNet has been told by Google that a new preview build will be released before the end of 2010. It won’t be final, but it has to be near complete by now. [Geek]