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Venutianxspring@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Yup, Chromebooks are already cheap and pretty intuitive, I think this will bump their sales a lot. I’ve ditched windows long ago except for my gaming PC and the PCs at my office (I don’t have a say in those though, I just much prefer Linux

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Buelldozer@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

Yup, Chromebooks are already cheap and pretty intuitive, I think this will bump their sales a lot.

Won’t matter to Microsoft at all. You’ll use your Chromebook to connect your Windows 365 Cloud PC . They’ll add it to the Microsoft Family Plan, same one that has MS Office in it, for free when its introduced and then slowly raise the price as people get embedded into it.

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- FlyingSquid@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Chromebooks generally encourage you to use Google’s family of office apps. So I don’t know about that.
  
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  - Buelldozer@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    It’ll be a legal battle where MS will claim Google’s closed ecosystem as a monopoly and force them to carry the “MS Cloud PC App” in the Play Store. Or you’ll just go buy a “WinBook” made by HP, Dell, Lenovo, etc…
    
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ABCDE@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
And tablets, which most people seem to be using these days.

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