At a company-wide all-hands meeting, Microsoft executives touted the success of Teams in education while bemoaning the success of Chromebooks.


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At a company-wide all-hands meeting, Microsoft executives touted the success of Teams in education while bemoaning the success of Chromebooks.
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Google is rolling out Chrome OS 88 this week, adding a faster web sign-in experience and personalized lock screens to the platform.
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Thanks to its processor success in 2020, AMD is the belle of the virtual CES ball this year, and the firm’s keynote address didn’t disappoint.
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Intel revealed today that hardware makers sold at least 9.4 million Chromebooks in Q3 2020, good for 122 percent growth year-over-year.
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Google has quietly acquired Neverware, the maker of CloudReady, a solution for bringing Chrome OS to older PCs.
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The HP Elite c1030 is a modern take on an enterprise-class Chromebook convertible, and it can be had with Parallels Desktop for Windows app compatibility.
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At a virtual [email protected] event today, Acer launched numerous new products, including several PCs, Chromebooks, and a new smart speaker.
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Parallels Desktop is now available for Chromebook Enterprise, allowing business customers to run Windows apps directly on Chrome OS.
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It sounds nonsensical, but this move parallels what Google did previously with Project Treble in Android.
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Google today documented a few new features coming to Chrome OS this month, including Wi-Fi sync, a new mic slider, and more.
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Looks like Microsoft may be onto something: Google is essentially making a version of its Your Phone app, but for Chrome OS.
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Thanks to native emulator support, it’s possible for the first time to completely develop Android apps using just a Chromebook.
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Google revealed that Chromebook sales in the U.S. grew by 127 percent in the second quarter, compared to just 40 percent for laptops.
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Dell today has announced the new 14-inch Latitude 7410 Chromebook Enterprise, which is available in laptop and 2-in-1 convertible form factors.
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Microsoft announced today that Minecraft: Education Edition is now generally available for users on Chromebook.
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Parallels is porting its Desktop virtualization solution to Chrome OS for Enterprise so that users can run Windows apps locally on Chromebooks.
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Google today announced the release of Flutter 1.20, the next major release of its cross-platform app development framework.
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Google announced today that it is launching a new feature called Nearby Share on select Pixel and Samsung devices.
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Google today announced the general availability of Chrome OS 84, which adds a new Explore app, Overview mode improvements, and more.
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Parallels is partnering with Google to Windows applications to business customers using Chrome Enterprise in the second half of 2020.
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With its hardware business failing, Google is pulling another page from the Apple playbook. It’s not going to help.
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It looks like Google has slowly started replacing certain Android apps with Progressive Web Apps in the Play Store. The change only affects two major apps for now.
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Released two weeks late because of the Coronavirus, Chrome OS 81 is now available with several new features for tablet mode.
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After pausing previously-planned Chrome and Chrome OS updates because of the Coronavirus, Google today revealed its new schedule.
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Mimicking earlier similar campaigns for Windows, Google today revealed that it is launching a Works With Chromebook logo program.
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Today, Google announced the new features that users can expect in Chrome OS 80, which is rolling out to Chromebooks now.
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Today, Google said that there were 40 million Chromebooks in use in education worldwide, a jump of 33 percent over last year