There's a turn up, Google announce they are to release an operating system. No details on how this gets installed on PCs, or any technical details at all. For the moment all we know is from from the Google blog:
“Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that
will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will
open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be
available for consumers in the second half of 2010. Because we’re
already talking to partners about the project, and we’ll soon be
working with the open source community, we wanted to share our vision
now so everyone understands what we are trying to achieve.”