Absolutely.

Windows have IE as their default browser then has MSN as the home page which is linked with Hotmail.

With Chrome OS that means Chrome as a default browser. Then is anybody’s guess. Google can push what they want. They can have gmail as the default home page if they feel that they don’t need to direct people to their search engine (which can be the default search engine when typing in the destination/URL bar).

Now that you make me think about it, Google Buzz is not the Facebook killer but is a big cog in the overall machine. Google Buzz can mimic what MSN Messenger did to ICQ.

I switched to MSN Messenger from ICQ because everybody was on MSN and because everybody was on MSN, people who had ICQ started to use it less – even if ICQ was obviously the better service (Back then, you could send message to other people when they are offline. MSN only did that almost a decade later).

It will be interesting to keep an eye on this.

But I think the power of Google is to offer everything together: if from GMAIL you can access to e-mail, chat, video-call and social networks… why to ever leave the page?

Moreover, if this integrates with YouTube and all the other business areas of Google, its power is total.

Someone tweeted that within a few years Google is going to have to split to avoid monopoly. I agree.