http://www.ithinkdiff.com/google-announces-the-google-chrome-operating-system/

http://www.liliputing.com/tag/google-chrome-os

It may not be what you think. It’s designed for netbooks to make them cheaper. Most software such as word processor, spreadsheets etc. will be online.

Being open source, it will flow over to other machines and may eventually replace Windows in some cases.

It is Linux.

The beta is probably released to a selected few. Maybe not.