Open Word Documents in Google Chrome

Why not make Google's Chrome browser able to handle files of type .doc? Let's say you want to open a Word document, but you haven't yet installed Microsoft Office on your computer. You have, however, downloaded the completely free Chrome browser, and so you just drag and drop your Word document into Chrome. Voila, Chrome realizes it's not a web page, detects the file type as a .doc, and sends you (along with your document's contents) straight to Google Docs and Spreadsheets, where your opened document awaits you.

Of course, there is the fact that everyone is staying away from drag'n'drop to browsers, for whatever reason -- but still, at the very least, Chrome could load the Google Docs page and give you a tutorial on how to get that file uploaded and opened into Docs, ready for editing online. The cool part? Microsoft Word would not be needed at any point of this process! Once you're done editing or reading the document, you could download it from Google Docs then email it on its way, just like any other document.

It seems like a good idea from Google's standpoint, anyway.