So let me get this straight... Microsoft was sued for hundreds of millions of dollars in order to break the browser, IE, away from integration with the OS - and now Google does the exact same thing; integrating Chrome & OS. Am I missing something here? I expect Microsoft to blast away full salvo.
Google have been doing things they berated Microsoft for a few years ago for some time now.
Google is well passed their honeymoon period.
I certainly wont be touching any operating system they release.
Lets think how this will play out:-
The operating system will have major bugs but they will hide the bug reports and silently update the software (well they do it with chrome including a bug that allowed people to have an iframe that actually pointed to an exe file and it ran on the client pc)
They will keep the operating system in beta for years (gtalk 4 years old and still in beta, gmail 5 years and still in beta. In fact many of their API's stayed in beta and once people were using them and relied on them they removed them as they did with google video which some people had paid for accessing videos).
Then of course when issues occur they will say "oh never mind, and by the way did you spot the beta badge when you entered the room?"
They will (as suggested above) ship gtalk, gmail client and chrome with the OS (but of course it's google so it's ok)
The o/s will display adsense or other type of ads at every opportunity,
