Google launches Chrome PCs, takes on Microsoft

Samsung and Acer Inc laptop computers using Google's Chrome operating system will go on sale in June, as the world's No. 1 Internet search engine tries to entice people to do more on the Web.

Samsung's and Acer's new Web-centric PCs are an incursion into territory dominated for years by Microsoft Corp and Apple.

For nearly two years Google has touted Chrome as an alternative to Microsoft Windows, but has faced delays launching PCs designed to use the software.

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