But now in 2017, Chrome OS accounted for 51% of the sales in the K-12 market nationwide in the third quarter. In 2012 Chrome OS only accounted for 1% to 2% according to Rajen Sheth, a Google director. When Google unveiled its Chrome OS, Microsoft and Apple owned of the education market. The Laptop clearly hopes to recapture some of the marketshare its lost to Chromebooks over the last few years. There are serious limitations to Windows 10 S and Microsoft is asking a lot from buyers by charging $999 for a device that cannot run programs downloaded from any source. Much like that dead OS, Windows 10 S is cribbed to allow for a higher performance from lower-end hardware. The original Surface product ran a stripped down version of Windows 8 called Windows RT. The $999 Surface Laptop runs Windows 10 S, a new streamlined operating system Microsoft unveiled at the same event. But unlike other Surface models, it does not run the traditional desktop version of Windows, though. Called the Surface Laptop, this is the notebook Microsoft hopes schools will buy instead of a Chromebooks. Microsoft just revealed the newest Surface model and it’s aimed directly at the education market.
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