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This seems less like an announcement of anything new, and more of a reminder of what is already possible. That said, training, reimaging and refurbishing devic

by dade_ 3y ago

This seems less like an announcement of anything new, and more of a reminder of what is already possible. That said, training, reimaging and refurbishing devices to be redeployed is no small amount of work. Also, it is likely organization would use the device as a thin client to Windows 365, or Azure Virtual Desktop assuming they don't already have a VDI, so I am not sure what is in this for Google, unless they think organization are going to migrate to Google docs as well. Oh Google, they are good at keeping me guessing.

bradfa 3y ago
The long game here seems to be that if you can get new customers to deploy ChromeOS Flex on existing hardware and use cloud based solutions for their software, then when the customers go to refresh the hardware or renew their cloud software contracts they're more likely to choose Chromebooks and Google's cloud software offerings. If you can test out moving to ChromeOS on hardware you already have, it'll make it clear if you can switch to a Chromebook when hardware refresh time comes. That could likely gain them some market share as then the risk of moving to Chromebooks would be very small.