Sigh. Windows 8 was the opportunity. That massive incompetent stinkbomb, while simultaneously OSX was being ignored.

Google could have finished off Microsoft with a death knell investment of a relative pittance:

- get LibreOffice to 100% parity and compatibility with office

- pick and polish a desktop environment to a perfect OSX, Windows-7, and Ubuntu interface

- get CrossOffice/WINE to near-100% compatibility

- near-perfect android app use.

Instead... ChromeOS?

Google could have added a multibillion dollar industry for the investment of $100 mil.