What is not clear here is what about native applications (to run them on the underlying Linux).
This for 3D games and other processor eater applications.
If this is not allowed, how this OS is better than any other OS which has IE and Chrome and FireFox on it?
What about many C++ developers which do not know WebKit? Will they support the new OS?

Not sure if the benefits of no more patches is good enough to propell the OS, because patches OTA and automated install of SPs and firmwares should not create anymore problems on other OSs.

The interesting thing about this announcement is about the NEW WINDOWS system. So it is not linux classic xwindow anymore. What will this be? How revolutionary will be this new window system? Maybe is just a multi-touch window system with growing borders and captions when you want to rotate or drag or resize the windows , and I belive is a vectorial graphics window system.

Because from the announcement they said nothing that would make it more than a Google branded linux web kiosk distro.

Well, considering how much development is done with Rails, I'd say you ought to include Ruby in the list.

I think you're right.

For one thing, it could be the first device that uses Chrome OS.

Even if it doesn't, the development of web apps will be spurred by Google's actions, which can only benefit a keyboardless tablet intended primarily for web use.

Jaiku they basically strangled by making invite only. Gmail got big by promising large mailboxes where the users would never really need to delete a mail.

Docs is fighting what amounts to a RAD these days, and is to much for the casual user (notepad), to little for heavy users.

Maps however is doing ok on the mashups front.

I wonder however if they have a interesting thing going with dialcentral, at least if they go global, like skype...

There are no web or non-web development languages. There is only the relative measure of the (deserved or not) popularity of a certain language in web development. Yes, there are actually web frameworks for C(++) out there.

It doesn't apply to you. So move on... not a big deal. It's like pitching Windows 7 to a diehard Linux user... you know it ain't gonna make a difference.

from CNN citing businessInsider:
"Google's operating system could go the way of the Chrome Web browser -- which has turned out to be more of a niche product rather than a true rival to Microsoft's Internet Explorer.

"Google's browser initiative, Chrome, has been a fun little science project, but as a product it has been a flop," Blodget writes.

"The same can be said for almost all of Google's non-search products. If Google wants to have a chance at success in this business, it needs to focus on it with the same intensity it once put into search. This will be challenging for Google, which, for the last several years, has had the luxury of dabbling in whatever it pleases."

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/07/08/google.chrome.os/

whisky tango foxtrot...

Just came here to post that FUD from CNN.com... wow.

But... Texas Instrument is onboard - http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/08/g...ceably-absent/

As is Adobe.