It's amazing how far we're come in 15 years. Rewind to 2008 when Chrome was launched: - Netbooks were hopelessly underpowered for the only game in town, Window

It's amazing how far we're come in 15 years. Rewind to 2008 when Chrome was launched: - Netbooks were hopelessly underpowered for the only game in town, Windows. Now it's possible to run a whole classroom on hardware that's even less expensive (even before adjusting for inflation). - Microsoft's Internet Explorer team had been disbanded for years, and Apple had abandoned its pursuit of the web for iPhone apps, launching the App Store instead. Today, the open web includes enough platform functionality to implement full-fledged word-processing, drawing, painting, and finance applications. - Unpatched desktop machines were the norm, and antivirus subscriptions were the band-aid response among the relatively conscientious. Now an eight-year automatic update policy (plus more via Chrome OS Flex) is viewed as a liability. - Laptop repairs were an expensive ordeal. Actually, that hasn't changed much. But it's interesting how this article portrays a $90 Chromebook repair as a negative because the device was inexpensive to begin with. Some of these devices cost less than the retail price of a Windows 11 license key!