Chrome OS or desktop apps?

Larry Dignan: Google on Thursday revealed a bevy of noteworthy developments for its Chrome OS. The company released the Chrome OS to the open source community, laid out its security vision and promised to deliver a simple operating system. However, the success or failure of the Chrome OS will ride on whether users will give up desktop applications. Gallery tour: Chrome OS

Inside the Google Chrome OS security model
Google plans to use a combination of system hardening, process isolation, verified boot, secure auto-update and encryption to thwart malicious hackers from planting malware on its new Google Chrome OS.
Live from Googleplex, it's Chrome OS
Here at the Googleplex in Silicon Valley where the company has summoned the tech press for a briefing about Google Chrome OS. Here's my play-by-play of today’s news.
Google makes Chrome OS open source today
Paula Rooney: Google made the early code of Chrome OS available to the open source community and claims external developers will have the same access to the code as internal Google developers.
Chrome OS: Some Early Preview Videos
Jason Perlow: Google videos show off their new Chrome OS. It does look quite promising and Google’s “Stateless” objective where all user data resides in the cloud reflects an extremely modern concept in OS design.
Google-Microsoft rivalry on with ChromeOS launch
Dana Blankenhorn: ChromeOS is Google’s version of Linux for netbooks, much as Android is its Linux for handhelds. It is a version of Bill Gates’ nightmares from 15 years ago, as Netscape was rising, visions that led directly to the case of U.S. vs. Microsoft.
ChromeOS says tear down this network regulation wall
Dana Blankenhorn: With Chrome OS Google is making the same call on networks Microsoft made on chips two decades ago. It’s a call that demands a response, not just from the market but from governments.
Google: Chrome OS and a potential antitrust
Zack Whittaker: Regardless of this, does the antitrust concept solely rely on paid-for software? Whether or not a product is free to the end user would not stop it from being anti-competitive because the reign Google has over the “free Internet” is huge.
3 reasons it matters, 4 reasons it's irrelevant
Jason Hiner: Google’s idea is to essentially create a thin client operating system for consumers. This is not going to have a big impact on IT departments and businesses