>Only if they never experienced the freedom of a proper OS. I'm a consultant, and many IT departments I've worked with have started deploying Chromebooks as cl

>Only if they never experienced the freedom of a proper OS. I'm a consultant, and many IT departments I've worked with have started deploying Chromebooks as clients for their VDI environment. When the VDI side of things is done correctly, the user experience is very, very good. Chromebooks are generally cheaper than traditional thin clients, and offer basic productivity tools and access to mail if VDI is down. They're more or less disposable, and easy to provision. I only see them becoming more popular in the enterprise as VDI grows more popular. Edit: I'll also point out that "freedom" is pretty much the antithesis of what most enterprise customers are going for. The space where VDI + Chromebook is growing quickest is within sales departments/orgs - places where the business has a vested interest in keeping a very tight grip on information.