Nine months ago Google launch its browser dubbed Chrome and already over 30 million people use it regularly.

Now, Google is set to begin development of a Google Chrome based operating system. The Chrome based operating system will be open source, the company will make the code available later this year. Google plans to offer Google powered netbooks in 2010 and is currently working with OEMs to bring a number netbooks to the market bundled with the new Chrome operating system.

The Chrome operating system is a new project, separate from the company’s Android operating system for Smartphone’s. The Google Chrome operating system will run on both x86 as well as ARM chips. The software architecture is simple — Google Chrome running within a new windowing system on top of a Linux kernel.

“For application developers, the web is the platform.” Sundar Pichai, VP Product Management and Linus Upson, Engineering Director said in a blog posting. “Google Chrome OS is being created for people who spend most of their time on the web, and is being designed to power computers ranging from small netbooks to full-size desktop systems.”

The move is ambitious and has wide spread implications not just to consumers but to dominant market leaders Microsoft and Apple. It’s not going to be an easy future for the Google operating system, Microsoft officials claim 96% of netbooks run Windows so penetrating market share will be tough.

Google has not confirmed pricing and availablility yet and the company didn’t mention how it plans to profit from the operating system.

In a separate announcement earlier this week, Google confirmed that it has moved its Google Apps suite out of beta. This was done in an effort to entice businesses to adopt the Google Apps services.