What do you expect from a 'tech blog' from AOL? AOL for crying out loud bahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah tech journalist my a$$. hacks

Chrome OS is another useless metoo product from google with a dumbed down user interface designed my someone in grade school. I don't want my computer to require a constant internet connection; or rely soley on Google's poor products. Google needs to stick with their search engine and stop wasting time trying to entrench itself into other aspects of computing with the eventual goals of spamming everyone to death with their dumb ads built in. Google may be releasing an ad-free OS for android/chrome right now but if they ever get any foothold - they will do just like they do with all their products - crap it up with their dumb ads. NO THANKS.

The OS has nothing I'm even slightly interested in - entirely webbased, with little developer support. Android has very little developer support behind it (I'm talking about big software houses, not dork script kiddies making apps), and an entire rip-off of the iphone OS.

ChromeOS will be another linux distro = fail, Google how about writing something yourself instead of buying someone elses products or stealing other peoples code?

Rank me down noobs, you know its all true.

Mark you can run full desktop version of Windows on many of these MID's. The problem with MID's as with all previous ultraportables is the price.

Netbooks came out and showed that people will buy tiny computers provided the price is there; they are very handy when traveling and with light document editing, movie watching and surfing they are perfect for that task.

Drop the price of these MID's to $200-$300 and you'd see tons of people buying them up.

The thing with MID's is they are very small; unless you can do a high resolution on that screen (thus making the screen and applications look even smaller) you have the majority of desktop/notebook applications displaying incorrectly/stretched/cut-off .

I'd put my wifi in her hotspot for FREE!

Are you serious? Why would you pay another $100 for software you already own? I guess you swim in money.

AHHAAHAH Google crying about copyright laws? ahahahaha - hey google clean up your own f**king house first - Youtube with its millions of stolen movies and videos. Oh you also want to steal authors books and publish them too? Google scrapping stories off newspaper websites and publishing them as if it's theirs? Google SHUT UP you theives. Google is built entirely on IP theft.

Cyanogen should tell Google F_CK YOU and do what he wants.

Cdice - another tard. It's called Windows Defender; its included and built into Windows Vista and Windows 7. OS X Snow Leopard also comes with a malware detection utility that blocks 2 known malwares floating around; you have no choice - both block malware and are included in the OS. You believe in UFO's, bigfoot and the boogeyman too? Your conspiracy theories are ridiculous.

Because people are jumping to conclusions, it's no different than antivirus software removing malware/viruses. There are already tools like this built into Windows and now OS X snow leopard too - they detect malware and block them from running. This is just doing the same thing on a mobile device. Or would you rather malware would keep running on thet network - chewing up bandwidth, slowing down the phone, sending massive text messages, making outbound phone calls without your permission?

None of these app markets have access to authors source code so don't know what exactly is being released. I could very well make an app for the iphone right now that when launched would let them play a game but at the same time sends massive amounts of spam without them knowing. Apple would have no idea until later either, and with no kill switch no way to stop the app from continuing it's damage.

Quit jumping to conclusions.

Learn to read tard. Windows MOBILE 7, not Windows 7. Whose using Open Office on Windows Mobile when it already comes with Office?

Google needs to wise up and tell Apple it will block any google search and any maps request from the iPhone until they get any app they want on the iphone. Play hardball you have leverage Google.