[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

fyi

[aft_lizard]

The partners all want a light, free OS that is user friendly and fully loaded(the OS not the machine) for the masses so they can build in more profit for the netbooks which don’t earn them much profit at all. Spending 18 dollars on an OS is not helping them(XP cost, which I think MS should simply give 7 starter away if this is the case).

IMO I think you will see less powerful netbooks in the future if ChromeOS takes off with smaller storage space, maybe less ports, less ram etc.

[Starboard]

cloud-based services

So (in plain English) this would essentially mean that there would be a Google 'browser' which would act like an O/S to enable you to run apps off the web, right? Similar to running a mail app through Yahoo. Is that correct?

[parsifal]

So after 20 years of computing, I am still frustrated by apps that don’t work or hardware that don’t work and all the flaky little dumb*ss problems. IMHO, operating systems should be seen and not heard. They should be something that the user doesn’t have to think about. They should just work.

Now, I am using a <2 year old laptop with 1 gig of ram, and Vista. Know what, I can’t get internet explorer to work. I have been using firefox, but when a friend needed to use my computer to access her homework, she could not log in with firefox. Then she couldn’t get IE to work. We ended up doing her homework on her cell phone. I have re-downloaded IE, but it still doesn’t work. This is the kind of stuff that just drives me nuts.

parsy, who is nuts.

[NRA2BFree]

I tried it and I think it stinks! I went back to IE.

[Squantos]

Isn’t this new OS Chrome just Ubuntu in a skirt with fuzzy slippers ?

[McGruff]

I can't understand why everybody is so scared Bill Gates is trying to take over the world when Google is trying to do a similar thing. These are the same people who turned in Chinese dissidents information to the Chinese gov’t. Do the same thing here some day?