This was just published in Tom's Hardware.
Right after the Wall Street Journal published a report that Chrome OS will be folded into Android, the new Android chief, Hiroshi Lockheimer, tweeted that Google is still very committed to Chromebooks and Chrome OS.
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This shows that Google wasn't expecting the Chrome OS and Android merger plans to come out this year. The WSJ report said that the final new OS isn't expected to come out until 2017 (Android "O?"), but that Google should preview it next year (probably at Google I/O, the company's developer-focused conference).
Chrome and Android shall become one.Oh, My!