Yes, yes, this is a late post - but I have been on vacation for a week with no computer access, so give me break.

I must say that Google Chrome (read the comic) is the biggest step towards a web-based operating system that I have seen in some time. The browser seems to have inherited many of the features you would expect in an OS, such as process and memory management and multi-threading. It will be really interesting to see where this goes.