$600 Chromebooks are a dangerous development for Microsoft
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$600 Chromebooks are a dangerous development for Microsoft
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Re: $600 Chromebooks are a dangerous development for Microsoft
#2$100 Pre-2010 laptops running Lubuntu are an even more dangerous threat that more and more people are learning about
Re: $600 Chromebooks are a dangerous development for Microsoft
#3$100 Pre-2010 laptops running Lubuntu are an even more dangerous threat that more and more people are learning about
I don't think that the typical cheap laptop purchaser willing to spend the time and effort into installing and learning to use a different operating system.
Re: $600 Chromebooks are a dangerous development for Microsoft
#4Chromebooks have one fatal flaw: Microsoft Office on them sucks. You're stuck with side-loading in the Android edition, which is an app with a simplified UI and requiring always-online connection.
All of this might be OK for a schoolkid, but for anyone else you might as well stick with a Windows laptop for real work, or an iPad for real consumption.
Re: $600 Chromebooks are a dangerous development for Microsoft
#5I was an intern at Microsoft the day that ChromeOS was announced. Conveniently, a few days later the head of Windows was giving a talk to all the interns. Overall, spoke well, but during Q&A someone asked him what he thought about ChromeOS.
He laughed. He said it was a joke. He made it very clear that he didn't understand what Google was even thinking. And that stuck such a sour chord on me. Here's a company well known to be hiring the brightest people in the world, and they've announced a direct competitor to what you're doing... and you're laughing? It was like seeing an experienced chess player playing against a rumored-to-be-brilliant child prodigy and laughing at the stupid move the child was making.
I spent the next summer working on the ChromeOS team.
Re: $600 Chromebooks are a dangerous development for Microsoft
#6$100 Pre-2010 laptops running Lubuntu are an even more dangerous threat that more and more people are learning about
I don't think that the typical cheap laptop purchaser willing to spend the time and effort into installing and learning to use a different operating system.
You mean like chrome os?
Re: $600 Chromebooks are a dangerous development for Microsoft
#7Don't forget that ChromeOS is an operating system (OS) that tracks everything you do. To use the OS to the full requires a Google account, so you aren't even anonymous while you use it. (As a reminder, your Google account = your name, your date of birth, your location, your gender and mobile phone number i.e. some of your most private and personal details.)
We've seen Microsoft criticised, quite rightly, for introducing tracking of users in Windows 10 (euphemistically labelled as telemetry), yet Google gets no criticism. In fact we get the opposite, people rush to Google's defence. The double-standard is hard to understand.
Presumably, if you think it's fine for ChromeOS to record everything you do in the OS, you equally think it's fine for Windows/Mac OS/Ubuntu to record everything you do too (non-anonymously of course).
Re: $600 Chromebooks are a dangerous development for Microsoft
#8Chromebooks have one fatal flaw: Microsoft Office on them sucks. You're stuck with side-loading in the Android edition, which is an app with a simplified UI and requiring always-online connection. All of this might be OK for a schoolkid, but for anyone else you might as well stick with a Windows laptop for real work, or an iPad for real consumption.
That's a flaw of Office, not Chromebooks.
Re: $600 Chromebooks are a dangerous development for Microsoft
#9Chromebooks have one fatal flaw: Microsoft Office on them sucks. You're stuck with side-loading in the Android edition, which is an app with a simplified UI and requiring always-online connection. All of this might be OK for a schoolkid, but for anyone else you might as well stick with a Windows laptop for real work, or an iPad for real consumption.
Plenty of people get by without native Office apps. The majority of Linux users for one. And aren’t some of the Mac Office apps basically crippled compared to the Windows versions?
Re: $600 Chromebooks are a dangerous development for Microsoft
#10I was an intern at Microsoft the day that ChromeOS was announced. Conveniently, a few days later the head of Windows was giving a talk to all the interns. Overall, spoke well, but during Q&A someone asked him what he thought about ChromeOS. He laughed. He said it was a joke. He made it very clear that he didn't understand what Google was even thinking. And that stuck such a sour chord on me. Here's a company well kno…
It's not like they haven't got a history of doing this. Remember when the iPhone had "no chance" of "any significant market share"?[0]
[0] https://usatoday30.usatoday.com/money/companies/management/2...