Chromium OS source released

there's a huge audience for this

there are five hundred million people around the world who use their computer to read email, search, watch youtube and use facebook

this audience is vastly larger than the audience of ms office users, photoshop users and even gamers

google is on to something. casual networked users are going to hit 1 billion+ users in the next decade.

i see lots of potential in a networked OS. go sit at someone else's desk, log in, boom...your desktop

advanced canvas and webgl will narrow the graphical/interactive gap

in ten years only a few native desktop apps will still be needed

apple and microsoft will invariably have to follow this model, its where the money will be.