subject: New Acer IT Product Division [print this page] Software architecture is simple and Chrome runs using a new system of windows, back with a Linux kernel. For developers of applications, the web is the platform itself, so that software created by them will be web based and written using the most popular web technologies. Obviously, these applications will run and on Windows, Mac and Linux. Note that the OS Android and Chrome are 2 separate products and it is interesting to think that some people will have to choose between the 2, Android behaving quite OK and the netbooks.