There is no timeline yet for the launch of Windows support on Chrome OS but Mistry does hint that youll need a beefy Chromebook for it. The Googler likewise appears to stress that, regardless of this concession, Google still believes that the Web is winning which nobody is truly cleaning off old non-Web Microsoft programming languages nowadays anyway.
Thats basically the picture that Chrome OS group product supervisor Cyrus Mistry paints in describing Googles move to officially support running Windows apps, even Windows itself, on Chromebooks. He likens it to an escape valve from Chrome OS protected environment, but only for those times you really require to. Simply put, he likewise paints Chrome OS as everything for everyone, from workplace employees to IT administrators, now with support for Windows for those files that can just be opened by Windows applications.
Google has been forming Chrome OS to nearly be the end all and be all of operating systems. Its recent announced collaboration with Parallels to bring Windows software to Chrome OS sounds like a partial admission of defeat that it cant really provide everything that its users need.
In the beginning, Windows support will consist of running the complete Windows os inside Chrome OS, with some special tricks to open Windows file types directly in Parallels. It will eventually evolve to use the latters Coherence function, which indicates users will only require to run the particular Windows apps they require as if they were native Chrome OS apps. Because of security problems it might require, Google obviously also looked into dual-booting Chrome OS and Windows but ditched that concept.
Why would you wish to play a VHS tape when you have a hi-tech, hi-fi Dolby Atmos home entertainment system? Due to the fact that sooner or later on, youll stumble upon some old video taped and saved in an old innovation that youll want or need to enjoy. At the very same time, nevertheless, that doesnt suggest youll wish to survive only on VHS tapes for the rest of your life.
