>>irony is Chrome OS holds the potential for IT departments to make your life even more miserable That is, when IT Teams in those places themselves are aware o

>>irony is Chrome OS holds the potential for IT departments to make your life even more miserable That is, when IT Teams in those places themselves are aware of playing around well with those systems. IMHO, banks (like where jrockway is employed) or BigCorp Inc (where I am) have IT teams comprised of subcontracting teams with MCSE types, hired precisely because their CTC is far less than average. Am pretty sure most of those teams would never (or even allowed to) take the pain of hacking up and altering OSes for that company's needs (blocking USBs/CD-ROMs, limiting privileges to ridiculous levels etc), when they could do it the easy way in Win XP or Win 7 installations.