Google Chrome OS 2009 = MSN Companion 1999?

Google announced their Chrome OS yesterday…

Releasing the Chromium OS open source project

And, like a lot of people I watched the live stream on a web page built using Cold Fusion (how retro!) and requring either Real or Windows Media to watch (what happened to YouTube?). I thought Chrome OS was going to be a superset of Android and was very excited about the prospect of this super-Android on tablet computers. Instead, I became less and less excited by Chrome OS as the presentation unfolded.

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