Microsoft may be turning up the heat on the search-engine front with the launch of Bing, but Google scored points of its own today, as Acer announced that it will offer a netbook that runs on Google's Android operating system.

Are we seeing the start of a new OS faceoff? The forthcoming netbook, a version of the Windows XP-based Aspire One, is expected in the third quarter, according to Jim Wong, Acer's president of IT products. Wong, who spoke at the Computex trade show in Taipei, praised Android's "incredibly fast wireless connection to the Internet."  Like the XP-based Aspire One, the new computer will use Intel's Atom processor.