So, apparently Google decided to expand into the OS market or at least show the intent to do so by posting about their upcoming Google Chrome OS.  I'm not entirely sure why this is new or exciting.  Cursory review of their plans show that they are creating a minimalistic version of another Linux Distro essentially with a Chrome Browser front end.  While I do think the concept is intriguing as far as size and speed goes, who prey-tell would actually want a 1+ ghz processor pc running this, I don't know.  The netbook internet cafe pc is a proof of concept idea without the back end infrastructure out there to support it.   We don't always have Wifi internet, sometimes I'm actually at places without internet, and I need to work.  Maybe in 10 years with technologies such as WiMax expanding over cities, this might change.  As of now, most people want a desktop based OS with Cloud Synchronization.

How this does effect us is how it expands Chrome to another platform.  With a Windows, Android and it's own OS version, developers should consider getting on the ball and making extensions that will work with it.  Password managers, Bookmarks Sync (real bookmark sync, not that lousy google bookmark label system) and other tools people use.