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Google announces new operating system

Google Inc. is working on a newoperating system for inexpensive computers in a daring attempt todiminish Microsoft Corp.'s longstanding control over people'scomputer experience.

The new operating system, announced Tuesday night on Google'sWeb site, will be based on the company's 9-month-old Web browser,Chrome. Google intends to rely on help from the community ofopen-source programmers to...

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