"It's pretty much a brick," says Pawn Stars' Rick Harrison as he rejects a Samsung Chromebook brought in by an actor playing a customer. Microsoft really doesn't want you buying this thing.
But why? Just how big of a threat are Chromebooks, Google's oft-ridiculed web-only laptops, to Microsoft's core business?
I'm puzzled too. It doesn't seem like Chromebooks are that big of a threat - why create terrible advertisements that only provide Google with free publicity?
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Member since:2005-07-06
That doesn't actually answer the question: if ChromeOS isn't a threat, why go out of your way to make it look like one?
Will Microsoft launch their latest campaign comparing Windows Phone 8 to BlackBerry, next?
Member since:2005-11-29
Because Microsoft is going to kill ChromeOS in the cradle like they did the Linux netbook initiative. That was never a serious threat either. Nothing is a threat, until it becomes one. Then you'll wish you had taken it seriously.
Right now its just an easy opportunity to tarnish the Google and Chrome brand, and make Windows 8/RT seem strong.
This is more a Windows ad than anything.
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2005-11-29
Why? Because ChromeOS is comparatively weaker and puts Windows 8/RT in good light. This is not that complicated.
No, ChromeOS isn't a threat. NO, Office isn't in jeopardy (seriously? LOL), but yes it makes perfectly good business sense to capitalize on that weakness in order to hit Google (which makes a mobile phone OS last I heard).