Google Chrome OS New Features Could Be A Threat To Microsoft Windows OS

Sample of Chrome OS 

Google Chrome OS vice president John Solomon in his blog post titled ‘The future of computing showed up early’ has revealed that native Windows apps - including Microsoft Office - will soon run on Chromebooks. This development is a really massive one has it gives users the opportunity to use Googles fast and reliable OS without having to worry about missing some features Windows OS provided has all windows features and software would be running on Chrome OS.

Chromebooks showing the RAS running Windows sotwares

Google hopes to achieve this by partnering with Parallels, a visualization software business. Parallels had already developed a Remote Application Server (RAS) which could virtualize Windows apps and even a full Windows desktop on Chrome OS, but users can't use this feature while offline and the performance could lag due to bad network connections.

Google is working to fix these issues and probably find a way to make this feature work offline (I don't know how they'd go about it). Other issues ChromeBook OS would face is in Firstly the area of gaming support which seems highly unlikely given a) Chromebooks don’t typically have the power to run most Windows games smoothly, b) Google Stadia already caters for this Windows apps use a lot of storage which may not suit many existing Chromebooks. Secondly, Windows softwares generally require a lot storage space to run and Thirdly, Google prioritizes upport for Chrome OS enterprise users, even though wider support is inevitable.

As far-fetched as it sounds if Google can successfully integrate this feature in its Chrome OS, it'll make it the most flexible operating system available out there especially since it can already run Android applications.

It'd be really exciting if Google could run MacOS on its Chromebooks, I'm really excited about this Chrome OS feature and I'd love to see how it winds up. What's your thought on this? Do you think Google would be able to implement it? And do you think Google would one day run MacOS? Let me know if you