I have to disagree. The Web doesn't handle interrupts or do memory allocation, schedule process and so forth. To call it that means you have to shed all meaning of the word operating system.

That is correct.The web is an OS, and we only need to structure it a bit more or find a way to unify applications as Google does. Google is the web OS.

The web is not an OS. The web is a layer that operates through an OS.

The distinction is important to make, because it demonstrates both the web's greatest advantage (the fact that it can reach across many computers at once) and its greatest weakness (it will always be slower than the desktop equivalents).

What can you do on a Windows PC that you cannot if you have access to a browser on a Linux based computer?

As of today, play high performance games.

There's a good argument for buying a games console.

You can do it on the web. You just cannot do it better.

... Just like an application written for an O/S will always be slower than a custom written application which runs straight on the hardware with no O/S.

It depends on your definition of O/S, and what you think it should do.

It would be cool if i could hack the Google kernel, too bad its closed source :D

it's called WWW and it's not an OS