Microsoft doesn't want you to buy the Chromebook after all

    In this story, Microsoft Evangelist Ben Rudolph is tasked to walk the streets of Venice, California, and ask people if they would rather have a Chromebook or a Windows laptop.

 
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    No surprise here - nobody wants the Chromebook. Obviously, everybody he asks either needs Photoshop, Illustrator or a Microsoft Office application. None of these run on a Chromebook (assuming you leave out Microsoft's Office Web Apps." and one lady told Rudolph, "If that doesn't have the capability to run Microsoft Office, it's kind of useless to me."

    Instead of a cheap Chromebook, the ad tells viewers, they should rather buy an Asus T100, 10.1-inch Windows 8 machine with a detachable touchscreen. "This one is the same price, about $300 bucks," Rudolph says. Actually, it's more like $400. And running Photoshop and Illustrator on it won't bring you much joy either. The people on the street are obviously wowed that they can detach the screen and turn it into a tablet, though people haven't exactly been lining up to buy convertible laptops so far.

    Chromebooks make up about 1 percent of the PC market, and despite this low market share, Microsoft clearly sees Chromebooks as a threat, though, and chances are we'll see a few more of these videos over time. [Techcrunch]



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