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Windows 10S doesn't allow you to change the default search engine or default search browser so it's always Edge and Bing. Chrome isn't even available on it because apps have to be downloaded from the Windows store. This OS is targeted for educational systems so kids will use it at school and not use Google. They may never use google search since they're use to Bing. Also it shows how Apple could do the same thing if they were to create their own search engine for Safari. That would limit google search to Android only. Am I overthinking this threat?
Tl;dr Win10S has all the constraints of Chromebooks without the benefits and Microsoft will abandon it before fixing it. I used to work with K-12 school Tech and have watched the growth of Chromebooks first hand. I think the Windows 10S "experiment" will fail for a number of reasons. 1. Google has slowly and purposefully worked their way into the education market over a very long time. They've spent a lot of time getting educator buy-in on using Google Apps, created classroom tools, and then, finally, created Chromebooks that are super easy to manage and affordable. The first Chromebooks were pretty weak but now there are several really nice and there are a lot that are kid-resistant. My point - Microsoft won't spend the amount of time required to "get this right". Adoption of 10S will be slow and painful and they'll move on to something else. 2. Education IT (and Curriculum) departments are pretty polarized when it comes to Chromebooks vs Windows. Many schools who adopt Chromebooks do so because they are brain dead simple to manage and maintain, with lower costs for the hardware and the staff to support them (no cert/training required really). The "cost" is lack of interoperability with traditional applications - but many offer rich web versions now that run great in Chrome. Pro-Microsoft schools cite the wealth of applications, capabilities, and investment in Windows as why they won't switch to Chromebooks. They believe the limited capabilities of Chromebooks prevent them being a viable tool. With 10S you get the worst of both worlds - the limitations of ChromeOS with the management (and security) bloat of Windows. Plus - users can accept when their favorite app doesn't run on MacOS or Chrome - those devices are "different". When they see Windows they expect it to run like Windows. And 10S definitely breaks that paradigm, making adoption and support that much complicated.
Good post. What about Surface tablets though. It's a risky move limiting the OS like that. They could lose full capability users to Apple if they limit apps to Windows Store apps and limit the default browser and search engine
Microsoft plays well with Apple, my daughter's college gives free O365 they don't care if it's a pc or a Mac, just don't show up with a chrome book
College and free do not belong in the same sentence. Her O365 cost are baked in cost.
Of course they are baked in but it's free for her... Let's be honest
antitrust law suite in making?
I don't think so. It seems the rules are changing. Just look at Googles OS for Chromebooks. It's just Google Chrome. You can't have another browser on it so Windows limiting their OS "for security purposes" is just doing what Google already does
I think what you are saying is, it is not yet ported to this OS? if they port it, it will show up I guess and that is on developers of app chrome in this questions case and edge in the example above.