The android app inventor is web based version of scratch for android.

Not written from chrome.

The check has cleared, yep thats final clearance as well. Double secret final clearance, well now that you ask there seems to be a 3 week hold on the check for irregularities.

This issue goes beyond Nigerian scam, a paypal payment can appear in your account but later be reversed days afterwards. How many ebay sellers wait a week to ship after payment? Certainly not me.

The study used IE 8, IE 9 (beta), Chrome 6. IE 8 still performed orders of magnitude better than chrome 6. That is stable to stable, apples to apples.

Studies take time. I doubt chrome has radically changed their social security in the last three months and neglected to say anything. GDP statistics take months to produce, yet they are extremely useful.

I am skeptical of this study, but not for your reasons

The reason the test used Chrome 6 was it was performed Sept 17-27, before the Chrome 7 release of Oct 21.

The test specifically stripped out Y & Z from potential malware links.

Data points: IE 9 gets 99%, Chrome gets 3%, Funded by Microsoft. What a beautiful line.

No I haven't looked at how the study worked, on Slashdot being first is better than being right.

To cache the website requires a net connection, or a lot of hacking. Though it can still be used as a short range flashlight.

Im not sure what your point is, the levels of sarcasm elude me. The OP clearly has no knowledge other than from the summary but is making market predictions. It may as well be gibberish.

Also netbooks are currently better than my laptop from 5 years ago, which was definitely worth the money.

Gears or HTML5 allow for offline use of apps that will sync with the cloud once reconnected. Gears has been used in google docs for years.

To me the advantage of Chrome OS is an easy, cheap, secure computer. It would be great for my parents who seem to get a incredible amount of viruses just from browsing the web. Granted it wont replace their current PC.

Do you know what Chrome OS is? Its a browser for an operating system, without net access it may as well be a brick.

How did this get promoted?