[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

fyi

google after Microsoft...?

Fight over Bing?

[ShadowAce]

[adorno]

Chromebooks were originally intended as a consumer product and service. Now that Google realizes that, because of tablets and other cheap alternatives, the consumer ain’t buying, they’re having to redirect their efforts and marketing towards the business sector. Can’t let all that time and effort and money they wasted go to, well waste.

Chromebooks is an idea that belongs in the 1970s, and, if it had been released some 30 years ago, before Windows and Macs happened, it would’ve stood a chance.

I wonder how much of a “break” Logitech and Jason’s Deli got in order to be Chromebook’s first business customers?

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Back to server-client, where it all began.

[Pontiac]

More proof that the free market works.

In the absence of government intervention a monopoly will not last long.

Two things have prevented Apple from being a true competitor to MS; price and Apple’s unwillingness to sell OS to run on other machines.

Another nail in MS coffin.

[Psycho_Bunny]

“According to Gartner, the cost of managing each Windows PC in an organization is between $3,000 and $5,000 a year.”

Pure BS

3 to 5k should be the TCO for a PC for it’s lifetime.

Except for very rare cases, any IT department spending that per year should be fired.

[Astronaut]

Yeah, I cant wait to buy a Chromebook and have to turn ALL OF MY PERSONAL DATA over to Google for storage on their servers. We can trust Google, right?

I dont care if they give the Chromebook away for free. I’d never buy a product that required me to store my data in the cloud, whether its Google, Apple, Microsoft, or whoever.

[Tribune7]

According to Gartner, the cost of managing each Windows PC in an organization is between $3,000 and $5,000 a year.

In this battle of the scorpions, though I rooting for MSFT.

[mmichaels1970]

According to Gartner, the cost of managing each Windows PC in an organization is between $3,000 and $5,000 a year.

Wow. My company's getting a bargain. I support over 100 myself.

[Golden Eagle]

Any reason this O/S won’t get hit with the same mountain of patent violatlon lawsuits its big brother Android already has? And since Google provides no indemnification, the legal liabilities are automatically passed down to the manufacturers, and eventually even the end users.

[tacticalogic]

The IT manager from Jason’s Deli, a chain of 230 restaurants, said that they gave a bunch of sales managers Chromebooks as part of a pilot program. Last month, the company had 70 trouble tickets from regular laptops. It had zero from Chromebooks.

How many Chromebooks, vs how many laptops? How old were those laptops, and how many of the calls were unrelated to the OS?

Hopefully, this article was not written to impress anyone who actually does performance benchmarking or diagnostics.

[Still Thinking]

According to Gartner, the cost of managing each Windows PC in an organization is between $3,000 and $5,000 a year. That’s how much it takes for an IT person to do things like push Windows and Office patches out every month, install and maintain antivirus software, answer helpdesk calls, and so on.

Assume an IT guy makes $60K. That would give a figure of 12-20 PC's a head. That sounds ridiculously low. I've worked in organizations that had 50-100 PC's and NO full time IT guy, let alone 3-5.