Microsoft got rich and successful by dominating the OS market. It's natural that they would want to repeat it by inventing the "browser-based OS". I don't think

Microsoft got rich and successful by dominating the OS market. It's natural that they would want to repeat it by inventing the "browser-based OS". I don't think they'll manage to fool anyone, though. Yet browsers have never been constructed to be operating systems. Principals are allowed to coexist within the same process or protection domain, and resource management is largely non-existent. Chrome offers the protection Wang claims is not implemented. As for the resource management, the issues Wang raises are security issues with access to devices and interfacing directly with the OS. This can be solved in the browser plugin architecture without reimplementing it as an OS or, as they call it, "browser kernel". I'm betting that Chrome doesn't have plugins yet because people behind it want to do it correctly from the start.