>Call me old-fashioned, but I like "owning" my software. I like picking and choosing where I can install it and how I use it. And, also call me sensible. I can

>Call me old-fashioned, but I like "owning" my software. I like picking and choosing where I can install it and how I use it. And, also call me sensible. I can pay $150 a year for Office 365 Small Business Premium forever and a day or I can use LibreOffice for free forever and use it anyway and anywhere I want. All that is fine, but I find it curious that SJVN likes Chromebooks a lot, which are the ultimate in forcing people into a rental model. The 100GB of free cloud storage that you get with Chromebooks is only free for two years. From one of his previous articles: >When you buy a Chromebook, you don't get just a standalone device with Chrome OS. You get cloud storage, the Google Docs office suite, Gmail, and on and on. In short, for one low price a Chromebook gives you everything you need from a basic computer. Not just that, but one of this other articles reads like a PR release from CDW and Google. http://www.zdnet.com/cdw-to-offer-enterprise-chromebook-support-7000010875/ http://www.zdnet.com/cdw-to-offer-enterprise-chromebook-supp... The only conclusion that I can gather from this is that SJVN likes to toe the anti-Microsoft line, perhaps for pageviews and is willing to dance on either side of the fence for it.