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Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight
Here's an interesting theory that CP heard and brought up to me.
Chrome is a nascent OS. Memory management, talk of using it as an application platform. Moving towards the ever-present paradigm of "Let the applications exist online, using pooled processing power," or "cloud computing" as it's come to be called.
And the most genius part? Google is using Windows as a test bed. Chrome is basically a virtual machine running on top of Windows. They're tapping millions of Windows customers to help shake out their first shot at an OS platform.
That's not a bad guess as to what they're doing.
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From what I've read I'd say CP is completely correct.