Google Relaunches Cameyo To Entice Businesses From Windows To Chromeos

Google aqcuired nan Cameyo virtualization package (pictured) successful 2024.

After acquiring package virtualization institution Cameyo past year, Google has relaunched a type of nan work that makes it easier for Windows-based organizations to migrate complete to ChromeOS. Now called “Cameyo by Google,” nan Virtual App Delivery (VAD) solution allows users to tally bequest Windows apps successful nan Chrome browser aliases arsenic web apps, preventing organizations from being tied to Microsoft’s operating system.

Google says nan caller Cameyo acquisition is much businesslike than switching betwixt abstracted virtual desktop environments, allowing users to watercourse nan circumstantial apps they request alternatively of virtualizing nan full desktop. That allows Windows-based programs for illustration Excel and AutoCAD to tally side-by-side pinch Chrome and different web apps, giving businesses nan elasticity to usage a operation of Microsoft and Google services.

“For years, nan superior blocker for deeper endeavor take of ChromeOS has ever been nan ‘app gap’ — nan persistent request to entree a fewer remaining Windows applications wrong an organization,” Google said successful its announcement. “Now, teams tin move to a much modern, collaborative productivity suite that was built for nan web, and they tin still entree immoderate specialized Windows apps that their workflows still dangle on.”

The goal, of course, is to promote much organizations to supply Chromebooks for their teams, if not move their systems to ChromeOS entirely. While Chromebooks tin beryllium much affordable than Windows-based hardware, and much apps are shifting to unreality aliases web-based platforms, nan number of ChromeOS users is still dwarfed by those utilizing Microsoft’s platform.