{"id":8976,"date":"2015-01-17T17:48:33","date_gmt":"2015-01-17T22:48:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=8976"},"modified":"2015-01-17T17:50:04","modified_gmt":"2015-01-17T22:50:04","slug":"chromebooks-beat-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/chromebooks-beat-windows\/","title":{"rendered":"Chromebooks Beat Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"

The following is an article from Computer World<\/a><\/span>. We thought you’d you would be interested in it. Perhaps, more than every, all of us who use Windows better hope that Windows 10 is something special.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Chromebooks spank Windows<\/h1>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/header>\n
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Last summer Microsoft talked its partners into trying to stop the growing popularity of Chromebooks<\/a> in its tracks by making a big push during the holiday season. While full retail results won\u2019t be in for a while, we do know the laptop sales results from the most important retailer of them all, Amazon. Guess what. With that retailer at least, Microsoft and its buddies failed. Miserably.<\/p>\n

Amazon reports that its top three computers sold over the holidays<\/a> were \u2014 drum-roll, please \u2014 Chromebooks. It was that way last year too. Oh, wait, I\u2019m wrong; Microsoft did worse this year. In 2013, one of Amazon\u2019s top three sellers was a Windows machine<\/a>, The Asus\u2019 Transformer Book, a Windows 8.1 \u201c2-in-1\u201d device that transforms from a 10.1-in. tablet to a keyboard-equipped laptop.<\/p>\n

Forgive me, but I can\u2019t resist the urge to extrapolate from those Amazon results and assume that the big Microsoft push was a bust elsewhere as well. If it turns out I\u2019m wrong about this, I promise to rectify it by mentioning it in another column down the road. Watch this space.<\/p>\n

But to continue assuming the worst from Microsoft\u2019s point of view: This is so not what it had hoped for. Microsoft assumed that by pulling out the same old tricks that had put an end to Linux netbooks in 2009<\/a>, it could do in Chromebooks as well. Wrong!<\/p>\n

The plan was to offer OEMs Windows 8.1 With Bing<\/a> essentially for nothing. Why such a low, low price? Well, back in February of last year, Microsoft had cut the price of Windows 8 on low-end devices by 70% and that had failed to get manufacturers or customers excited. The goal of the holiday \u201cwe can\u2019t possibly go any lower\u201d price was to enable vendors to sell low-end computers at bottom-of-the-rung Chromebook prices \u2014 from $199 to $249 \u2014 and still make a profit. The plan sounded like a winner to Microsoft and friends.<\/p>\n

The OEMs certainly bought into it. Asus\u2019 EeeBook X205 laptop and HP\u2019s Stream 14 were offered for $199, while Acer offered the Aspire Switch 10 and 11 2-in-1 tablets\/notebooks for under $400. So Microsoft and its buddies entered the last quarter of 2014 pretty darn sure that Chromebooks would be beat back and life would return to \u201cnormal,\u201d where Windows would be the only real choice for anyone who wasn\u2019t a tie-dyed-in-the-wool Mac fan… (read more<\/a><\/span>)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

SOURCE: COMPUTER WORLD<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The following is an article from Computer World. We thought you’d you would be interested in it. Perhaps, more than every, all of us who use Windows better hope that Windows 10 is something special. Chromebooks spank Windows Last summer Microsoft talked its partners into trying to stop the growing popularity of Chromebooks in its tracks by making\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1426,1674],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8976"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8976"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8976\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8979,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8976\/revisions\/8979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}