Google has introduced early entry to a brand new model of Chrome OS known as Chrome OS Flex. The brand new model of Chrome OS, designed for companies and faculties, is designed to run on previous PCs and Macs. The working system could be put in “inside minutes,” in accordance with Google’s weblog submit.
Google advised me that Chrome OS Flex will appear and feel an identical to Chrome OS on a Chromebook — it’s constructed from the identical code base and follows the identical “launch cadence.” It did caveat that some options could also be depending on the {hardware} of the PC you’re utilizing. In reality, it stated this for each particular characteristic I requested about, together with always-on Google Assistant and Android cellphone syncing. So, should you’re going to do that, preserve a watch out.
This gained’t be the primary time Chrome OS has proven up on units it didn’t ship with. Google just lately purchased Neverware, which beforehand offered an software known as CloudReady that allowed customers to transform previous PCs into Chrome OS programs. That set off hypothesis about the place we’d subsequent see Chrome OS and its future within the PC area.
Since that acquisition, Google notes, “now we have been laborious at work integrating the advantages of CloudReady into a brand new model of Chrome OS.” This seems to be Google’s first step.
If you wish to check out Chrome OS Flex your self, you may study extra on the Chrome Enterprise web site. Observe that the OS continues to be in early entry mode, so chances are you’ll encounter bugs — you may boot it immediately from a USB drive should you’d moderately poke round earlier than putting in it in your machine.
