I don't think ChromeOS is an attempt to spit in Microsoft's eye. ChromeOS simply reflects a real user behaviour which is 'I just want a light laptop to browse the web with- I mostly read email, go to ebay, watch youtube videos, lookup wikipedia and I'd like to do that while sitting on the couch.'
I've had people ask me if this kind of hardware existed and I've said "not yet, but it will come". ChromeOS enables this new hardware in the same way that Android enables a new generation of mobile phones.
Yes, Google can justify this for business reasons- more people using the web tends to mean more income. But my observation is that internally the real justification for most projects in Google is that this is good for users and an interesting technical project- and incidentally it also has a business case. (I don't have any special knowledge about ChromeOS from internal documentation- I haven't got around to looking.)
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