Chrome OS is a project by Google to develop a light computer operating system. It is devoted to using the World Wide Web. The operating system was announced on July 7, 2009, and it is based on Google's Chrome web browser as it visually similar, and the Linux kernel. When first released, it was targeted at netbooks but has also been present on laptop computers (known as "Chromebooks"). It was released to technology journalists in December 2010 after being delayed. It runs on systems with either x86 or ARM processors.