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Let's take reality for what it is... until Google gets its head out of its rear-end and develops meaningfully practical alternatives to Microsoft Office and Adobe Acrobat Pro\Reader, then Chromebook will always remain an "attack" on Windows equivalent to someone annoyingly shooting a BB-gun at your thick-gauge steel sided building... tink, tink, tink... merely annoying, and not much else - as it can't even put a chip in the paint.
Google has earned a reputation of going so far and then stopping. For example, they took Google Drive features to within the ball park of Dropbox, but then stopped (or settled-upon) at a too-basic, missing-features Google Drive client when they could have made it a real Dropbox contender.
Basic is a very asymmetric and precarious proposition... too basic and nobody wants it, cross that line of too much and all the benefits of "less-is-more" are gone, and nobody wants it.
Google has earned a reputation of going so far and then stopping. For example, they took Google Drive features to within the ball park of Dropbox, but then stopped (or settled-upon) at a too-basic, missing-features Google Drive client when they could have made it a real Dropbox contender.
Basic is a very asymmetric and precarious proposition... too basic and nobody wants it, cross that line of too much and all the benefits of "less-is-more" are gone, and nobody wants it.