If a picture tells a thousand words, then the screen capture below of the front page of Techmeme illustrates the interest and excitement in Google’s new operating system.
Keep in mind this screen shot was captured 24 hours after the initial announcement, which goes to show how much attention the news continues to receive – amazing for a product not expected to be released for at least another year.
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I think Giz explains it best so far: http://gizmodo.com/5310406/giz-explains-what-the-…
We don't actually know what the OS will look like, and odds are it's probably going to be very similar to any other random Linux-based netbook OS, like Moblin, Ubuntu netbookremix, etc, albeit with the push power of Google. I'm more excited about Android, personally. I doubt many computer users actually know which OS is running on their computer, let alone care. As long as kids keep installing Firefox on their parents computers while they aren't looking, the internet as a whole will improve.