Originally Posted by Manic_Skafe

This is good news but there's already a pretty decent yet largely unsuccessful market for open source operating systems geared towards netbooks. It'll be nice to see what they can come up with but I highly doubt that even their best effort will result in an experience that's more efficient and generally better than I get using XP and Windows 7 on my netbook.

So long as they pull it off, I could see the Chrome OS taking over whatever share of the market that Linux based and other open source OS have but I doubt it'll even make a dent in XP/7 sales.