I thought this would be an interesting topic to talk about, seeing as the OS seems to be predominately aimed at Netbooks and is coming late 2010. I'd like to think GOG will support it, as I guess a lot of their games end up being played on low-powered machines.
Google Source
"Google Chrome OS is an open source, lightweight operating system that will initially be targeted at netbooks. Later this year we will open-source its code, and netbooks running Google Chrome OS will be available for consumers in the second half of 2010. Because we're already talking to partners about the project, and we'll soon be working with the open source community, we wanted to share our vision now so everyone understands what we are trying to achieve.
Speed, simplicity and security are the key aspects of Google Chrome OS. We're designing the OS to be fast and lightweight, to start up and get you onto the web in a few seconds. The user interface is minimal to stay out of your way, and most of the user experience takes place on the web. And as we did for the Google Chrome browser, we are going back to the basics and completely redesigning the underlying security architecture of the OS so that users don't have to deal with viruses, malware and security updates. It should just work."
For those in the know, here's [url=http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-07-08/google-will-kill-the-pc/?cid=hp:mainpromo2]Doug Rushkoff 'bullish' take on the OS[/url]
Boing Boing Source

Interesting... Google is taking over the world a bit at a time.
Wonder what compatibility will be like with DirectX and existing Windows apps and formats. Looking forward to giving it a try.
Thanks for the news.

Hmmmm not sure how this will work I mean Google are one of the few companies with the reach to take a chunk of Microsofts pie but do they have the financial capability to make it a good alternative I mean MS have their fingers in alot of gaming... erm pies (it's late).
I just recently moved from Opera to Chrome for a browser so an OS that works as well as the browser does sound interesting for netbooks probably will have slightly better support than the various versions of Linux floating about in them now.

Wonder how much its going to borrow from Android. If it can run on ARM processors you might even be able to run chromeOS on PDAs, that'd be some sweet homebrew action there

To press the power button on your netbook and be 'browsing in seconds' sounds really good. I just hope the actual 'word' equivalent will be as good and as intuitive, because I use the thing loads on my netbook.

Hopefully this will be the start of mainstream Linux usage and then native Linux games provided from major publishers :)
Although wine is a nice program, Linux support from the companies would mean a lot for useability.

might just be the google docs thing they already have

I'm sure sure sure after beta they're going to start supporting linux and osx and many other formats - like mobile and etc.

While nice, in that we'll have a fast booting web focused platform... Part of me is against this growing trend away from the power user desktop and onto mobile units and consoles. As long as netbooks stay as secondary complementary machines, I'd be happy, and I'm considering one for this purpose, cost(AUD)/power wise, I'm better off with a laptop though.

I can't see how this OS will possibly succeed. Since the OS is centred around web applications running in a browser, all of which will work in any standards-compliant browser on any platform, why would anyone bother using Google's OS rather than a more established one with far superior hardware and software support? I can't even see it succeeding on netbooks all that well; the outstanding Windows 7 will displace the ageing XP on netbooks as soon as OEMs get their hands on it, ensuring Windows' netbook market dominance, and those specifically wanting Linux on the go would surely be better off with a more established distro such as Ubuntu. It's also not related to Google's other OS, Android, which could lead to some confusion.
Google Chrome OS is just another Linux distro. Windows compatibility will be non-existent. Unless they bundle Wine with it only native Linux software will work.
EDIT: Also, "Google Chrome OS" has to be one of the worst and most confusing names for an OS.

It will be a huge success, as much as Chrome browser at least....
Oh wait, Chrome got a 2% market share... oh crap, poor Dr. Google/Evil web-OS crapness plan :-P

google considers itself a brand - not just a search engine.
it wants to take out apple - by being microsoft.

All the best to them

I'll support this,