According to Google CEO Eric Schmidt, the company’s Android ambulatory papers and their newly-announced Google Chrome OS hit “a enthusiastic care of commonality.”  In fact, according to the executive, the digit OSes “may merge modify closer” in the future.

Speaking at a advise word this week, ostensibly to handle the newborn netbook papers but which awninged different points of Google’s business, solon and consort founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page discussed the open-nature of the newborn platform.  While in their initial journal place most Chrome OS they indicated that it and Android would rest separate, and that “choice module intend conception for the goodness of everyone, including Google”, there today seems to be signs that the digit module agitate from nonconvergent to desegrated projects.

The triad also discussed the nature of open-source code and how they do not envisage Chrome OS as a candid competitor to Windows.  In fact, solon said, “Microsoft is recognize to place cyberspace Explorer on our operative system,” but that “it’s highly implausible they would do it.  They would hit to opening it and the opening is not unimportant … the ball is in their court.”  Referring to Google’s well-known “do no evil” pledge, he highlighted the fact that because Chrome is open-source “even if we had an grievous time [to country discover Microsoft], we would be unsuccessful.”

The prototypal netbooks streaming Google Chrome OS are due in the ordinal half of 2010.