According to a TechCrunch report on Wednesday, Google’s Chrome 1.0 is coming out of beta testing – it is now available for download for Windows. Google says it is working on support for Mac OS X and Linux. 

Google’s plan to push Chrome out of beta was first revealed last month when the company Vice President, Sundar Pichai, announced that the browser would enter full release status in January, and that Google could pursue partnerships with major OEMs in a bid to get Chrome shipped on new PCs.

The move was finally announced by Google’s vice president of user experience, Marissa Mayer, to TechCrunch’s Mike Arrington, in an interview at Le Web 08. Regarding when the move might take place, the announcement might come at Add-on-Con, a conference about browser extensions at which Nick Baum, a product manager on Google Chrome, is scheduled to speak.

Taking the browser out of beta would, without doubt, fulfill Google’s ambition to let business partners, such as computer makers, bundle Chrome on their systems. Although Chrome has been in development internally at Google for years, the company has taken it out of beta despite having resisted the impulse to do the same with Gmail and several other high-profile projects.

Chrome, which has a big opportunity to shine after its official release, is an open source web browser that leverages Apple’s WebKit HTML renderer and a unique JavaScript virtual machine called v8. It offers a number of advanced features, such as the Incognito privacy mode and integrated search capabilities in its URL bar. With a few very impressive innovations, it is designed to isolate individual tabs in separate processes.