&gt; OTOH, maybe this is a win. We need to get away from this<p>&gt; whole &quot;The browser is a poor man&#x27;s operating system&quot; model<p>&gt; anyway. Let the browser do a great job of browsing<p>&gt; hypermedia<p>Yes that is the only win I can see as well. Obviously they want to turn browsers from general kitchen utensils to pure entertainment and amusement platforms, for media and information consumption.<p>(Hm wait, wasn&#x27;t that what the WWW was supposed to be, back in its early days? Are we going back to the dark ages or is it just the usual turn of history?)