<i>I don't like to use buzzwords, but this looks to be disruptive.</i><p>Let's take a trip back to 1996 in the Wayback Machine:<p>"Later this summer, Netscape will roll out a comprehensive Internet strategy that will position its servers and browser as a next-generation Internet-based operating system.<p>...The only difference technically between Netscape's Navigator browser and a traditional operating system is that Navigator will not include device drivers, [Marc] Andreessen said."<p><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/19990428173124/http://www8.zdnet.com/pcweek/news/0617/17netsc.html" rel="nofollow">http://web.archive.org/web/19990428173124/http://www8.zdnet....</a>
<i>the web browser has now come full circle to being a very weird virtualized operating system, whose APIs rival Windows in size, idiosyncrasies and complexity</i><p>Er, I don't think so (on any of those three counts).