CrossOver: running Windows applications on Chrome OS!

It is still in beta but it opens perspectives: Codeweavers announces that its software CrossOver makes it possible now to run Windows applications on Chromebooks under Chrome OS and Intel processor!

  
Chromebooks can be very useful as lightweight machines, but they suffer from a large lack of applications. Google has partially corrected the problem by offering on some machines access to Android applications from the Google Play Store but the publisher Codeweavers adds new by announcing the open beta of Crossover for Chrome OS!

The promise is to be able to run Windows applications on chromebooks with Intel processors, via the Chrome OS Android subsystem.

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Since a chromebook with access to the Google Play Store and equipped with an x86 processor with at least 2 GB of RAM, it will be necessary to recover the CrossOver application for Chrome OS on the download portal.

Credit image : Codeweavers

Jeremy White, co-founder of Codeweavers, explains in a blog post that this version takes advantage of several years of development on Android. But while Android devices generally have tactile displays and interaction modes constrained by their mobile aspect that make the use of Windows applications unsatisfactory, the chromebooks have instead everything you need (big screen, keyboard ...) to take full advantage of CrossOver's strengths.

Everything is still in beta (with all the features activated until the summer of 2018) but it will be interesting to see how the chromebooks will be enriched with applications from the Windows world, while continuing to enjoy from those of Chrome OS and Android ...

Source : Codeweavers


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