WebOSes

Interesting, in an 'art of the possible' way, is the WebOS idea, covered elsewhere but reviewed well here. Playing with YouOS has certainly been fun. I guess Microsoft's best answer for revenues may not be Live, but Remote Desktop, which is just great to use. Google obviously may find it more attractive, though arguably their recent strategy of consolidation of services (docs, spreadsheets, gmail, all in one place), plus an open API for gadgets for Google Desktop and one's home page, might mean the OS metaphor just becomes irrelevant, given the prediction that the boundaries of what a developer can do in that environment will keep receding....