Google relaunches Cameyo to entice businesses from Windows to ChromeOS

Google aqcuired the Cameyo virtualization bundle (pictured) successful 2024.

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

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

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

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