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Comment by dingo_bat | Hacker News Reader

I don't see any justification to use win 10s on any system for any reason. It's inferior in every way. Why does it exist?

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It's targeting the chromebook market of a curated marketplace for apps.

To be honest I have the same opinion about Chromebooks ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Chromebooks have the advantage of keeping state in the cloud. The other day I started editing a document at the office on my desktop and finished it on the train back home. No need to even think where the document was - it's always available no matter the device I'm on.

Office 365 is kind of the same, I know. We can think of these machines as Office 365 clients just as much as we can think of Chromebooks as Google clients.

But, at least for Chromebooks, you can seamlessly add a fully functional Linux environment.

As others have mentioned they want a Chromebook/iOS alternative. They could have achieved this with Win 10 already but my guess is that with Win 10 S and its 50$ upgrade fee, they want to artificially drive the value of Win 10 regular up (or they are afraid to cannibalize Win 10). Anyway, the whole move looks very much like something "old" Microsoft would've done. IMHO, this was just a matter of time.

To create a captive audience for the Windows Store, so desktop developers decide it's worth their time to make UWP apps.

Or to put their win32 app in the Windows Store using the Desktop Bridge (a.k.a. Project Centennial)

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