Of course he would say that.

A few points...

1. Chrome OS will ship early 2010, if not sooner.
2. Yes, Chrome OS is also aimed at ARM processors like Tegra - manufacturers will line up to get Chrome OS preinstalled. You rightly call it a beach head - which is the start of an invasion.
3. Chrome OS won't try to be Windows. Chrome Browser doesn't try to be IE8 - it just does what it does, stronger, faster, better.

I like windows, but this is just Microsoft propaganda.

7 vs chrome? idk, if ms isnt threatened, then they have no need to panic. google is only looking at filling a void between apple and ms. i say good idea, if they can provide a quality product, y not take the plunge? more competition between both companies wud b good for consumers. maybe apple will drop their ridiculous prices. but then again, if people r more than willing to shell over k's for a notebook, then cool. anyway, its interesting to find out how this new OS will handle. im particularly curious about any android integration.

Google Chrome OS does not have to do well in its first release. All it need to do is to have a workable version to stay competition until the next killer release. Microsoft will need to be innovative to stay ontop. If not, it will be the demise of Windows.

If someone could have created A OS to run games, many people would have left Microsoft years ago.

"Such a low sum for each copy of Windows on netbooks indeed makes the advantage of a free Chrome OS irrelevant."

Why do you think free? Why not think less than free? Google is going to offer some kind of revenue sharing plan to the OEMs. How does $15.00 compete with that.

Good luck MS 7 your going to need it. LINUX is set to blow all your profits up your nose. Your not going to know what hit MS profits. Your done.

I think that Windows Vista has done alot of harm to Microsoft and that they have lost the trust of the people and it will take many years for them to gain it back. Google Chrome OS might not be the way it could be Mac or other opensource software.

Do not underestimate the large amount of people, like myself, who are sick to death of Windows and how Microsoft operate their business. As Google's service offering improves, so I will move over to them wholly.
Goodbye Microsoft

"According to Songhurst, Google will have to do a lot more than simply offer a new, CHEAPER, Linux flavor, rebranded as Chrome OS. The GM pointed out that the only way that Chrome OS would represent a threat to Windows 7 was if it was sensibly better than the latest iteration of the Windows client.

ahaha who does this guy think he is.
Google Chrome OS is gonna be FREE.
So not only is it going to be an amazing platform thats obviously going to blow MS away, but its gonna be free. Not $130 like Windows 7