The VMWare/Google announcement at partner's exchange that the Chromebook can be used to access a VDI desktop was really old news. My hope is this new partnership will result in a View client for the Chromebook with USB pass through, great audio and video performance (PCoIP), and some good work arounds for the keyboard issues. I am in K-12 education and the Chromebook might make a great device to give to students who need to bounce from using web apps/cloud storage to Windows applications and local storage. Perhaps the next version of View will allow HTML access to be as good as using a client.
The announcement talked about trying to move the Chromebook into the enterprise. VMWare has made a decent start towards this but there is work to be done.