During my daily check of latest news and articles I found this interesting post on ArsTechnica , describing how and why Google is working on Chrome OS. It's a four-page article that I absolutely suggest you to read because it's very interesting. What really hit me is the workflow Google adopted to create Chrome: instead of spending millions in researches over "human-trends", an area that is everything but precise and measurable, they simply created a prototype and let it being adopted by 2 hundreds googlers. It sounds great: simple and smart and it's more or less the strategy that itsme...
In the last days we exchanged some internal email about Google Chrome OS: we found some similarities with the basic ideas of itsme, and some radical differences. I'll try to summarize the discussion for your benefit, so you can tell us what you think about it.
A few highlights (from google chrome OS presentation) to start with:
the operating systems that browsers run on were designed in an era where there was no Web;
the software architecture is simple — Google Chrome running within a new windowing system on top of a Linux kernel;
it is being designed to power computers ranging from small netbooks to...
