Google is working on a new operating system based on the company’s nine-month-old Web browser, Chrome. The new Chrome operating system is expected to begin running computers in the second half of 2010.

Google is designing the operating system primarily for “netbooks,” lower-cost laptops used mainly for surfing the web.

Google says that Chrome will be faster to start, easier to use and more secure than Windows.

Google’s chief executive, Eric Schmidt, and its co-founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, have made little attempt to conceal their disdain for Windows in recent years.

“We hear a lot from our users and their message is clear — computers need to get better,” wrote Sundar Pichai, Google’s vice president of product management and Linus Upson, Google’s engineering director.

“We believe choice will drive innovation for the benefit of everyone, including Google,” wrote Pichai and Upson.

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