Google To Develop An Operating System Called Pigweed To Take On Microsoft

Google recently filed for a trademark for the name Pigweed, which is believed to be the tech giant’s new operating system.

The trademark filing was discovered by Igats, a Reddit user, who have been finding trademarks for a long time. The filling was made on the 31^st of January and it said that Google intended to use the name for an operating system.

Pigweed has attractive white and pink flowers but most people will feed them to pigs. So it is unclear for now why Google chooses such an unglamorous name for its new operating system.

Google seems to be following the botanical theme as its latest OS is called Google Fuchsia, which is believed to have features of both Android and Chrome OS. However, we have not heard much about it in recent months.

The name Fuchsia was trademarked many years ago, but it does not mean we will definitely see the OS launched.

The word pigweed had been spotted in a propose of code change last year before being switched back to Fuchsia. However, this is not enough to jump to the conclusion that the two projects are related. The only thing we can be sure of is that the developers in the conversation seemed to know what Pigweed is really well.

The code repository of Google’s Chromium also refers to the Pigweed project.

Unfortunately, that is all we have for now. As Google works on the project, we expect to hear more from the OS in the future.

The question here is when we can see Google unveil the OS. There is no pattern for this, unfortunately. The company trademarked the name Android just a few days before launching it while Fuchsia has been trademarked for a few years now and we have seen it released yet.

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