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What Is Windows Lite? It's Microsoft's Chrome OS Killer

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Re: What Is Windows Lite? It's Microsoft's Chrome OS Killer

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Post by jtnews »

This article is missing one of ChromeOS's main advantages. Ease of management (provisioning, updating, installing software, group policy like configuration, etc). If MS doesn't address that then this will flop as bad as RT and S.

I've seen Windows shops with entire teams dedicated to managing the Windows environment (not including break/fix) and I've seen environments with thousands of Chromebooks that are managed by one person (and that's not even a full time job).

MS is making some progress with Azue AD and InTune, but it's not there yet. Hopefully, by time this comes out they will have those other pieces better refined so it can all come together.

Re: What Is Windows Lite? It's Microsoft's Chrome OS Killer

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Post by thunderbong »

tracker1 wrote: post #18

I think MS should probably just abandon the "Windows" moniker for this OS... call it XBox Laptop, hell "Surface Lite" would be a better name. No windows name as part of it at all. People have expectations with Windows, that it will run all their stuff... different brand would make it easier.

It says so in the article

Re: What Is Windows Lite? It's Microsoft's Chrome OS Killer

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Post by auslander »

zapzupnz wrote: post #9
auslander wrote: post #3

Microsoft should consider running on Apple A12X too. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_A12X

Apple's A, S, T, and W processors represent a significant competitive advantage (performance per watt, energy efficiency) in the mobile space; there'll be chilled water in Hell before Apple cedes that to anybody else, least of all Microsoft.

I mean desktop, not mobile, Windows Mobile is dead. MS is not hardware company, so why not make money on good product? And stick it to both, Quallcomm and Intel, they got bit nasty with their 3G and LTE patents :)

Re: What Is Windows Lite? It's Microsoft's Chrome OS Killer

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Post by zapzupnz »

auslander wrote: post #23
zapzupnz wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Apple's A, S, T, and W processors represent a significant competitive advantage (performance per watt, energy efficiency) in the mobile space; there'll be chilled water in Hell before Apple cedes that to anybody else, least of all Microsoft.

I mean desktop, not mobile, Windows Mobile is dead. MS is not hardware company, so why not make money on good product? And stick it to both, Quallcomm and Intel, they got bit nasty with their 3G and LTE patents :)

Again, Apple won't be sharing their silicon with anybody, there's absolutely nothing in it for them to share their chips with their competitors.

Re: What Is Windows Lite? It's Microsoft's Chrome OS Killer

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Post by auslander »

zapzupnz wrote: post #24
auslander wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I mean desktop, not mobile, Windows Mobile is dead. MS is not hardware company, so why not make money on good product? And stick it to both, Quallcomm and Intel, they got bit nasty with their 3G and LTE patents :)

Again, Apple won't be sharing their silicon with anybody, there's absolutely nothing in it for them to share their chips with their competitors.

It is selling chips. No need to share anything. All IP stays at Apple. Big $$$ just flow in, ok, agree to disagree.

Re: What Is Windows Lite? It's Microsoft's Chrome OS Killer

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Post by zapzupnz »

auslander wrote: post #25
zapzupnz wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Again, Apple won't be sharing their silicon with anybody, there's absolutely nothing in it for them to share their chips with their competitors.

It is selling chips. No need to share anything. All IP stays at Apple. Big $$$ just flow in, ok, agree to disagree.

Apple's business isn't selling chips, it's selling devices. If they're putting competitors' software on their chips, what advantage does that offer their own devices? None, aside from the OS, and that's never been Apple's value proposition; rather, it's the integration of hardware and software only possible by doing as much of both as possible, not by licensing.

Therefore, "Agree to disagree" doesn't apply. It simply doesn't follow. Apple isn't a chip vendor; it makes chips as a form of competitive advantage. This isn't a matter of opinion.

Re: What Is Windows Lite? It's Microsoft's Chrome OS Killer

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Post by glenrivard »

zapzupnz wrote: post #8
amanzi wrote: post #7

Apart from the stupid clickbait title, this is an interesting article. Not sure what it's like in other countries but here in NZ Chromebooks have become the de-facto education laptop/platform. But the underlying OS is almost the unimportant bit - the key is the Google Apps Education platform and how well it works for both students and teachers. Even if (and that's a big if) this Windows Lite OS was successful and man…

Source: I'm a digital technology teacher in NZ. The Ministry of Education and Microsoft have an arrangement whereby all public schools have free access to Office 365 for Education, including online versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint; Teams as a replacement for Classroom; Forms as a replacement for … well, forms; PowerApps and Flow as a replacement for App Maker; and five free licences per student for the desktop and…

https://betanews.com/2018/10/22/nz-chromebook-linux-kiwi-edu... New Zealand chooses Google Chromebooks over ... - BetaNews

What are you talking about?

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