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by Beretta_Vexee 280 days ago
Because Chrome OS is offered on low-cost laptops that are unsuitable for office work.

What's more, it's Google, so we're not safe from a ‘Lol, we're discontinuing support for Chrome OS. Good luck, Byeeee.’.

Some offices still have bad memories of Google Cloud Print, for example. I'm not saying that being an early adopter of a distribution that's less than a year old is a good solution. Just that Google's business products don't have a very good reputation.
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lproven 280 days ago
> Because Chrome OS is offered on low-cost laptops that are unsuitable for office work.

ChromeOS Flex exists, it is free of charge, and it runs on more or less any x86-64 computer, including Intel Macs.

Nordic Choice got hit with ransomeware and rather than paying, just reformatted most of its client PCs with ChromeOS Flex and kept going with cloud services.

https://www.bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hotforsecurity/nordic...

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Wowfunhappy 280 days ago
Businesses seem okay using Google Chrome, Google Drive/Docs, and Gmail.
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const_cast 280 days ago
In my experience they're not, these are way less popular in enterprises as compared to Microsoft equivalents.
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lproven 279 days ago
Being #2 with tens of millions of users is OK, you know. It doesn't mean you've failed.

Sure it's less popular. It came in under 20 years ago, competing against an entrenched superpower that was already nearly 30 years old back then. It's done pretty well.

The Google Apps for Business bundle has outsold by far ever single FOSS email/groupware stack in existence, and every other commercial rival as well.

Notes is all but dead. Groupwise is dead. OpenXChange is as good as dead. HP killed OpenMail.

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