Every time I read that some well-meaning company has pushed Windows machines into a school or village in a developing country, I recoil, knowing that each machi

Every time I read that some well-meaning company has pushed Windows machines into a school or village in a developing country, I recoil, knowing that each machine is a liability as well as an asset. I know how much effort goes into supporting friends and family. Computers are too complex. Chromebook represents a "good enough" solution for places that don't need desktop apps but would like connectivity. But that's not the feature. The feature is all the other stuff you don't have to do anymore. No more virus trouble. No more registry. They're not cheap enough yet, but they represent a better solution than the next 5 generations of ever-increasing complexity that is Windows. And no, common-or-garden Linux isn't the solution here either.