Microsoft's TV Ads Make Me Want To Try A Chromebook Hot
He approaches two women holding a Chromebook and asks, "What kind of stuff do you do on your laptop? What do you guys use it for, for schoool and for work?"
One of the two women responds, "PhotoShop, Illustrator," and her friend chimes in withwith "Word."
The Microsoft spokesman holds up the Chromebook. "This is a Chromebook and Google says it is everything you need in one laptop," and then the spokesman adds, "Doesn't run Photoshop."
"It doesn't seem practical," responds one of the women.
The next people walking interviweed are a mother and her teenage daughter. The mom says she uses her laptop for Excel, PowerPoint, and Word.
"Can't install it on this one," Microsoft Guy says hoisting the Chromebook.
"Then that wouldn't work for me," says the mom.
Microsoft must really be worried or it would not be trying so hard to discredit Chromebook. Tom Warren, writing for The Verge, recently posted quotes from software industry executives saying Micorosft is shooting itself in the foot with these negative ads.
To make matters worse, however, this latest negative Microsoft ad mocking Chromebook is downright misleading and dishonest because you can run Microsoft's Office productivity suite on a touchscreen Chromebook using a browser without installing Office.
For Microsoft to mislead makes me distrust the company and want to try a Chromebook.
IIf you run a virtual desktop in the cloud, you can access all your apps remotely, using a server to run apps requiring serious processor power, like a desktop portfolio reporting app, graphic design programs or big PowerPoint or Excel documents.
Chromebooks are inexpensive ultra-portable computers running Google's operating system, ChromeOS. Everything you do on a Chromebook runs inside Google's Chrome browser.
Almost all of the reports in the tech press say Chromebooks can do most of the tasks most people need, but it can't please all the people all the time. What that exactly means is never really clarified because it will vary depending on how you use your computer. Wihch is why I might buy one and see for myself.
Compared to Microsoft Office, Chrome offers a less complicated, less powerful office productivity suite for word-processing, spreadsheets, and presentations. The Chrome browser can now do all sorts of cool things and you can run a touch-driven version of Microsoft Office on a Chromebook from a browser.
Acer's $300 C270Pis set to be released this month. I just might get myself one. It's being compared to previously-released touch Chromebooks that cost $1,200.
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