You’ll be able to run Android apps on Chromebooks and shortly you’ll quickly have the ability to run Home windows apps. Assist for the function was introduced earlier this 12 months and now, extra particulars on the way it will work have surfaced.

In an interview with The Verge, the product supervisor for Chrome OS, Cyrus Mistry, revealed customers will have the ability to boot a full model of Home windows utilizing Parallels Desktop, so they’re working each Home windows and Chrome OS side-by-side. To make issues even simpler, Home windows file varieties might be redirected to Parallels Desktop.

Nonetheless, this isn’t the ultimate vacation spot Google has in thoughts for working Home windows apps on Chrome OS. What Google has deliberate is for customers to run Home windows apps with out the necessity for the entire Home windows desktop. Parallels already helps this on macOS and Linux, permitting customers to run Home windows apps as if they’re the apps of the primary working system.

Parallels Desktop might be obtainable later this 12 months for companies. Resellers will have the ability to add the function to enterprise Chromebooks. Additionally, you’ll need what known as “Energy Utilization” Chromebooks to get it to work which suggests the system requirement might be Intel Core i5 or Core i7 chipsets with a minimum of 8 GB RAM in keeping with XDA-Builders.

Google believes the addition of assist for Home windows apps will increase purchases however seeing as it is going to be obtainable for companies we don’t anticipate an enormous enhance in gross sales.

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