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Even Chromebooks get the offline blues

Posted on December 6, 2017 at 10:05 CST by woody • Comment in the Forums

Looks like many – most? – Chromebooks veered offline yesterday, after an update broke existing WiFi connections. You could still log on to a network manually, but if your setup (or company or school) relies on an existing internet connection, your machine turned belly-up.

Frank Catalano has the story on GeekWire.

Microsoft-itis. It hit Apple last week. Now ChromeOS.

Other Chromebook, ChromeOS, Microsoft-itis

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