[bbarn]

Because Linux still isn't ready to roll out for the average enterprise office user. My mother, father, wife, and sister all have higher ed degrees and fruitful careers and can't realistically use a linux machine - even today. Linux' open nature has been it's greatest achievement, and it's worst enemy. Lack of commonality or agreement on package sources, etc., has led to an ecosystem that's all but inaccessible to the Real World.

I love it myself, but until you can walk into a Best Buy and a quarter of the options are Linux machines that the sales people can show off as well as the mac airs and surfaces, it's going to stay for people like me.

And that's just the home world. Trying to bring business into it? Unless your staff is purely development oriented, you now have to retrain every one of them (and probably most of the developers). Linux for wide spread average business user use is a non starter.

[dx034]

I work in Tech and can work well with Linux shell but still use Windows as my main OS. I've tried various Desktop environments, none was as nice and productive as working with Windows for me. I still try it every year but so far I've always gone back after not more than a week.

And Excel remains very powerful for quick data analysis, quicker than python tools for most one-time work.

I think that Linux will become more successful where people don't interact closely with the OS (Phones, Kiosks, simple terminals) but Windows will remain dominant on most computers.

[ChiliDogSwirl]

"Because Linux still isn't ready to roll out for the average enterprise office user. "

And my point is, how will Chrome OS enterprise be different?

Do you think they'll write their own Printer management tools, or just install CUPS?

Will they write their own Active directory client, or just use SSSD or Samba or whatever RedHat is using these days?