It’s official: Microsoft has a reason to fear Chromebooks

It’s official: Microsoft has a reason to fear Chromebooks:

We were surprised last year when Microsoft started launching an anti-Chromebook ad campaign because, quite frankly, we'd never see anyone really use a Chromebook in the wild before and Chromebooks were nowhere to be found on usage statistics published by NetMarketShare. A few weeks later, however, we started hearing stories about Chromebook usage surging in schools although we didn't have any real data to back up such claims. Now, however, The Wall Street Journal directs our attention to new research from Futuresource Consulting showing that Chromebooks' share of the K-12 market for tablets and laptops exploded from just 1% in 2012 to 19% in 2013. What's more, Windows's share of the same market declined from 47.5% to 28% over the same period.



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