decaff - 8:42 pm on Mar 21, 2005 (gmt 0)

"...Yes, I know, that's the point, what google is doing has nothing to do with creating a consumer OS."

I beg to differ...from what I see Google is developing a web services based thin-client OS that people access from anywhere, any device, at anytime to find what they are looking for..
this is the promise that Larry Ellison was talking about 5+ years back...(to paraphrase him and his extreme distaste for the MS platform):
..."I don't need no stinking desktop OS...I store everything I need in the network (internet) and everything I need can be found in the network (internet).."

So Google is, in fact, creating a network-based OS, if you will...not the standard tired desktop OS...

Thin client computing...all you need really is a browser and all the functionality and interactivity is online in the app (that is GOOGLE.COM and all it's associated apps it is developing out)