Anyone watch this?
They're concentrating on netbooks. Not sure why, when netbooks are plenty powerful for full sized OS's, and boot up at a decent speed. It will also support SSD's only. Your OS is basically the Google Chrome browser, using only apps/documents that run in a browser.
They mentioned that your data can be synced and if you get a new netbook, you download back into the new computer. That sounds nice, but I'm not sure I trust them with that? Most netbooks come with a lot of web storage now already. Mine came with 10 GB, but I think Asus offers 10x that now. Google caches too much as it is with just their search engine. They wouldn't answer if other companies would be able to offer the same backup service when they were asked.

I can see a market for this in a business environment for mobile/home employees. Also in very basic users who only want internet/web mail (if they will remain very basic users). However, that's still limiting. They need to address how you could move data to another type of OS and I didn't hear anything about how well (or if) this will network with a domain or workgroup. Seems that would handicap the business application other than small business or secure web based interaction (which is growing). Many people are networked at home now too and might not have that option with this. Not all users in a home are basic users.

I get the cloud computing direction, but I just don't see much benefit here yet. I guess you have to start somewhere, and this is the direction of things, but for now I'm fine with taking just under a minute to boot up Vista (and less for Win7). I don't care for being locked into their browser, browser apps and very specific hardware choices. They're trying to take over a market under the guise of simplifying it seems.