Nobody wants to hand out Windows laptops to everyone in their business. Maybe a core of your company are Office power users, and maybe this is even half of you

Nobody wants to hand out Windows laptops to everyone in their business. Maybe a core of your company are Office power users, and maybe this is even half of your company, but the other half are idiots. These are people in your organization who need to be contacted via email, need to read documentation, but simply cannot be trusted with an actual computer. To these people, you give a Chromebook. Having seen inside a company that hands out Chromebooks to everyone, even if they already have a "real" computer, I think Microsoft is going to lose a lot of ground to them. They are cheap enough to just throw them away when broken. If a user is having problems, they can just drop their Chromebook in a drop box and walk out with another one in 10 seconds flat. And again, they are cheap enough to just have them on a shelf outside your IT office or tech support desk.