I am sure people have said this already, but it seems that Marc Andreesen's remark about Netscape is now coming true..

I thought that having a part of an OS online an interesting idea.

I think Firefox does not have a good chance, let alone Chrome, the browser, in competing with IE as long as the majority is using the Windows OS. The key in this game is to come up with an OS that sales people at the Best Buy to say something to the effect of "this Chrome OS is very easy to use, and you wouldn't have a problem if you used Windows, it is better, and cheaper."

But anyway, there isn't yet a desktop OS from Google..

I wonder if Microsoft can use any interoperability/ standard card in competing with Google..

Is Bing really a serious effort to compete with Google? That is the news.

I think Google has been benefiting from the same kind of "discovery." When Google adds some new feature, people sometimes talk about it as if it is a new, never-tried-elsewhere thing.

I have the same doubt: newspaper industry may not be the same scale five years from now. The future might be on the web, but it is perhaps not as bright a future as one might hope.