Google OS – and this time, it's real

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Launched it in VirtualBox. Used it for 5 minutes, got bored. It's just a glorified web browser, and I'm using the term "glorified" generously. I can see a basic use for a few niche people with netbooks, but that's it.

The netbook market is very far from niche. Most people don't need huge amounts of RAM nor even huge hard drives to do what they need... view the internet, share a few stupid videos with their friends via e-mail and do minor tasks like... annoy other people via IM, et al.

For a large sum of non-programmers, non-designers and non-professionals, the need for something that's quick to access the stuff they want to see online, or play online is a need that is ever-growing.

With that said. I agree. This is nothing more than a very thin Linux shell underneath a glorified web browser.