Joel Orr's World

The operating system is designed, Google says, as "a natural extension of Google Chrome," the company's Internet browser. Putting the browser at the real center of computing action, with the device operating system merely an adjunct, means two things: More applications like word processing and spreadsheets will reside inside the big, remote data centers of companies like Google, and Microsoft's mainstay cash machine, the operating system, is not so relevant anymore. Read more in Forbes