Microsoft to out cloud-based Windows 10 S and take on Chrome OS on the education market

Google’s web-based Chrome OS and the accompanying array of affordable Chromebook devices are hardly chart-toppers when it comes to overall market shares on today’s tech scene. Still, there is one specific market niche, where Google’s brainchild really reigns supreme. And a pretty important and prospective one at that. At the end of last year, Chromebooks comprised a whopping 49% of the K-12 education sector, up from 40% in 2015 and only 9% in 2013.

Clearly the web giant is on to something and is seems Cupertino wants in. Windows Central recently obtained some insider information,…