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Google’s (GOOGL) Chrome operating system has grown to become a legitimate third platform in the personal computer market behind Microsoft’s (MSFT) Windows and Apple’s (AAPL) Mac OS, new data show. Chrome OS notebooks accounted for 35% of all notebook PC sales in the U.S. commercial sales channel from January through May this year, the NPD Group said Monday. The commercial channel, which covers sales to businesses and other institutions through distributors and resellers, sold 2.4 million notebooks in the first five months of the year, NPD said. Of those, about 840,000 were so-called Chromebooks. Sales of Chromebooks rose 250% from the year-earlier period, the research firm said, compared with 20% growth for Apple Macbooks and no change for Microsoft (MSFT) Windows notebooks. Chromebook volume has strengthened heading into the important education buying season, NPD analyst Steve Baker told IBD. For the three weeks ended June 7, Chromebook sales made up more…