Google VP confirms not all Chromebooks will be able to migrate to Aluminium OS

Google VP confirms not all Chromebooks will be able to migrate to Aluminium OS

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TL;DR

  • The vice president of product management for Chrome OS says Google isn’t giving up on the operating system.
  • The executive also confirmed that the company will continue to honor its commitment to support Chromebooks with 10 years of automatic updates.
  • Not all Chromebooks will be able to migrate over to Aluminium OS due to technical limitations.

It has been known for a while that Google plans to merge Chrome OS and Android into a single desktop platform, codenamed “Aluminium OS.” Unsurprisingly, this knowledge has led to many questions about the fate of Chromebooks and Chrome OS. In an attempt to ease the uncertainty, a Google executive sat down to answer a few questions about the future of the platform.

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