> I wouldn't be surprised if, in some years, all the bloat below the > browser which we call operating system would become pretty much > useless... What does the future hold? Possibly the the essential parts > of consumer OS's will be integrated into the browser which will be > able to run on bare hardware (think handhelds...).
all you've really done by that is turn the browser into the operating system; just one that's even less-well designed (let alone implemented) than usual! all that tells me is that people's expectations from their computer systems remain depressingly low, and a horde of script kiddies quoting penguins can shout down dijkstra.
