[cryptoz]

> Even Google seems to have backed off from this space recently - have you heard much mention of Chrome OS lately?

I hear about Chrome OS every single day, because I follow its development. Many hardware manufactures will be releasing Chrome OS netbooks in November / December of this year. Google doesn't generally hype things before they are available to consumers, so there's no reason to expect lots of Chrome OS discussion while it's still in development.

Google is still very hardcore about JavaScript/HTML5 development.