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Yes, but these are kids... A windows machine will be virus and trojan-ridden within hours in their hands, and maintaining a fleet of Windows machines up to date
by eliben 10y ago
Yes, but these are kids... A windows machine will be virus and trojan-ridden within hours in their hands, and maintaining a fleet of Windows machines up to date is notoriously hard.
- blub 10y agoAnd a Chromebook will be Google-ridden from hour zero. :) Still, I suppose it's useful to get kids used to the idea of all their digital lives being owned by Google. Prepares them for their future adulthood.
- vetinari 10y agoDon't worry, nowadays Microsoft mines the windows systems just like Google mines their online services. It' pick you master scenario, not choose between freedom or fiefdom.
- Grangar 10y agoLinux is the only (albeit unfeasible) choice left...
- Oletros 10y ago> And a Chromebook will be Google-ridden from hour zero. :) Does Google Apps for Education mine anything?
- vetinari 10y agoNo, and neither for Business. However, after the kids finish the school, they won't have their education accounts and so they will open the free ones, because they are used to the Google ecosystem. You know, the first shot is for free.
- jrnichols 10y agoThis. I think that it's genius and at the same time frightening at just how well Google has done in the education market, especially how well they've done at getting children to equate the internet with all things Google. Kids (at least the ones at the daughter's school) have no idea what email is. They only know Gmail. They don't know that there is any other search engine besides Google. They don't know that there are any other office suites besides Google Docs. They go to Youtube for everything. Which is easy when Google searches for things will show you a Google property before anything else. The kids are living in a totally Google world at school since the school district went Google. They barely know anything else. And Google loves it that way.
- blub 10y agoSome students from Berkeley are suing Google for scanning their apps for education emails. Google says they're not doing it anymore since 2014. Only Google knows.
- Oletros 10y agoPerhaps Google is lying in the TOS, because it is clearly stated in the Business and Education TOS
- ocdtrekkie 10y agoThis is a myth perpetrated by people who probably haven't used Windows as a primary OS since Windows XP. Windows 10 is nearly immune to malware if you have UAC and Windows Defender on. The primary methods of attack these days are phone scams asking for remote access to your PC and phishing websites, because actual malware is pretty hard to come by.
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- agumonkey 10y agoChromeos does have a nice security subsystem too. And with embedded sync, they can reset it with a button.
- kyrra 10y agoUseful link describing the security subsystem to help prevent it being hacked: https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/tpm-usage https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/tpm-usa...