Little by little and over the years, the ChromeOS operating system is making a place for itself in the market. All this and largely thanks to the efforts of the search giant, Google, owner of the software.
It is true that at the moment it cannot compete, far from it, with the sector leader Windows, and possibly never will be able to do so. But it is also true that this Google operating system has its market niche, for example in the education sector, where it continues to gain followers.
Obviously, a good part of desktop users are used to the applications of the Microsoft operating system. Therefore, and in order to give greater utility to its project in this same sector, Google has just made an important move. In fact, it will allow us to use a good part of the applications included in Windows on our ChromeOS-based computer.
Specifically, we mean that the technology giant has just bought Cameyo. To give you a better idea, it is a platform that allows us to run x86 applications on other operating systems. As is easy to imagine, this purchase opens up a wide range of possibilities for Google. And as of the acquisition, the platform developers will become part of Google’s development team to offer their virtualization solution on Chromebooks with ChromeOS.
The truth is that this movement, which we told you about, could become an important advance for the use and market penetration of Google’s operating system.
Cameyo will make it possible to use Windows apps on ChromeOS
After the announcement of the purchase that we have mentioned, the company itself mentions that Cameyo will mark an important advance. All this with the goal of making legacy applications accessible and easy to manage and use on ChromeOS.
We must keep in mind that the Cameyo platform presents us with a different concept in the virtualization sector to which we are accustomed. This is a utility that will basically allow the native applications of the Microsoft system, Windows, to coexist with those of ChromeOS.
Furthermore, all this without the need to use a virtual desktop. To say that one of the main advantages it offers us is the technology known as VAD or Virtual Application Delivery. This is what is responsible for separating the application as such from the operating system and including it in an isolated environment. All this so that we can execute it without any problem.
This technology that we mentioned simplifies the administration of applications and improves the user experience. Hence precisely the enormous usefulness that the entire set will have when running Windows applications on Chromebooks. In turn, this will also be achieved thanks to the support for progressive web applications or PWAs that the ChromeOS system will also take advantage of.
What’s more, this way users will not have performance problems when launching these Windows programs on the somewhat more limited hardware of these computers with the Google system.
