I spent 15 years in high tech manufacturing IT, the latter half running test engineering and end user computing. Manufacturing processes will likely NEVER move

I spent 15 years in high tech manufacturing IT, the latter half running test engineering and end user computing. Manufacturing processes will likely NEVER move off Windows and there are plenty of airgapped NT4 machines out there still, and millions of unsupported homegrown apps running on top of old versions of MSSQL or even Access. This is besides the fact that there are machine connectors for Windows that don't exist for anything else -- it's a no brainer. But, that doesn't mean ChromeOS hasn't been making inroads in manufacturing. Sales of ChromeOS Kiosks for Digital Signage are strong, and so is the adoption of cheap Chromeboxes & ChromeOS laptops for things like digital work instructions, check-in/out, and all sorts of manufacturing-adjacent processes/controls that don't require a full Windows PC. 10-15 years ago there was a trend to move a lot of this to traditional VDI, and that's the market that Google has been targeting. This is just a small fraction of the overall manufacturing IT market, but for Google -- starting from $0 -- it's meaningful.