• TechCrunch, Wednesday, November 18, 2009 4:24 PM

Google plans to demo its Chrome OS software platform during a private gathering at the company's headquarters on Thursday. The highly-anticipated platform -- "created for people who spend most of their time on the Web" -- had been rumored last week to be available for download this week.

What can we expect? "Driver support will likely be a weak point speculated TechCrunch. "We've heard at various times that Google has a legion of engineers working on the not so glamorous task of building hardware drivers ... And we've also heard conflicting rumors that Google is mostly relying on hardware manufacturers to create those drivers ... having a robust set of functioning drivers is extremely important to Chrome OS's success." Sundar Pichai, vice president of product management and Matthew Papakipos, engineering director for Google Chrome OS, is expected to preside over Thursday's event, which the company describes as a "technical announcement."

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