The Cr-48 and Chrome OS: Google's vision of the net

Decade ago my dance instructor asked me whether I could help him with his computer (no idea how he identified me from the group as somebody who works with computers). It turned out his mails had been bouncing as they had viruses and he had bought a virus scanner which he wanted me to install. Unfortunate he had bought it for wrong Windows version, it worked only with newer ones. I think his eventual solution to the problem was to buy a new computer, this time with virus scanner pre-installed...

I'd say that most people don't want to install any software on their machines (games or other things), mostly because they cannot be sure it will succeed. If they don't have friends or relatives who do the computer administration for them, either the software (like MS-office) is pre-installed when they buy the computer or they take the machine to a shop for install. However, I have hard time imagining somebody doing that to get some new game to their machine.

Nowadays people just open e.g. their Facebook account and play (Flash) games that are there or do some casual gaming on gaming www-sites (which also use Flash). If they want 3D games, they buy a game console, but it's mostly kids and lonelier singles who have time for that kind of stuff. People with families are too busy for anything but casual gaming.