So Microsofts fears may come true...

Official Google Blog: Introducing the Google Chrome OS

Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks.

INteresting

The software architecture is simple

Very interesting

I hope it runs faster than the ubuntu version for netbooks

It's about time somebody got rid of X.

$10 says we're shortly going to start hearing from Microsoft again about those alleged patent violations in the Linux kernel.

It'd be nice if they actually told us something useful about it instead of pouring on the marketing speak.

I thought this article asking questions about Google's Chrome OS was pretty interesting:

Eleven Questions About Google's Chrome OS

Fake Steve was pretty good on this today. I'm glad he's back, with the new organs and all.

Pretty great. Thanks.*

* Typing on Chrome, my default PC browser.

Is Google's claim about the OS security idiotic?

Article about Google's security OS claim

One more article:

Will Google's OS Make the Desktop safe?

We had 0day for Chrome the second it was publically released. Literally that second. The same will happen for ChromeOS, I bet.

It's impossible to create a 100% secure OS. The best you can do is design it with security in mind and hope it covers most of the bases and to hope that new holes are discovered quickly and patched effectively. As far as I'm concerned, this new OS is just another Linux distro.

We had 0day for Chrome the second it was publically released. Literally that second. The same will happen for ChromeOS, I bet.

Hehe, funny hearing 0day for a free release

Here it meant 0day exploit.

If it's a "lite" Linux Kernel with a new web-based window system, what will there be for apps? I can't see this going too far, in all honesty. Though it may get my old PIII-1GHz system back from the dead

Liked the Fake Steve article, pretty good and funny stuff.

Asus started something good with their first netbook, but the main complaint I tended to hear (aside from power) was the cheap interface. Even when folks were installing full Linux on it, it was still a niche.

Netbooks started getting bigger once companies put WinXP on it. Sorry, but that's what the masses are used to. Browser interface may be better than that first Asus machine interface, but I'm thinking it still won't be enough.

Heck, if MS is so scared, they can probably offer a lite version of their own (aren't they doing it on the OLPC initiative anyway?), and the sheep will buy that.