Good prank: 3,000 pageviews, 500 re-tweets, dozens of links. In fact many on the TechMeme thread still carry titles like The First Screenshots of Chrome OS. But it wasjust a prank. Watch the videohere.
Zoli Erdos
Publisher / Editor @ CloudAve and Enterprise Irregulars. Industry Observer, Blogger, Startup Advisor, Program Chair @ SVASE (Silicon Valley Association of Startup Entrepreneurs). In his "prior life" spent 15 years immersed in the business of Enterprise Software, at management positions with SAP, IBM, Deloitte, KPMG and the like.
How do we know if it is a rumor or not? You have the Youtube, but then we have this entry on the Google blog: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/introducing-google-chrome-os.html