Google ending ChromeOS support two years early
Chromebooks have won plenty of admirers in the education sector, especially schools which see them as a fine way to get decent and well-priced computers into kids’ hands without having to take on the burden of managing a full OS. REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/c'); }); Google has so far launched Googlebooks only for consumers. None of the web giant’s five current Googlebook hardware partners designed their first models for the education market or other fleet buyers.Those five, and many other OEMs, continue to crank out Chromebooks.Google’s support policy for Chromebooks includes ten years of updates.
- ▪Chromebooks have won plenty of admirers in the education sector, especially schools which see them as a fine way to get decent and well-priced computers into kids’ hands without having to take on the burden of managing a full OS.
- ▪REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/c'); }); Google has so far launched Googlebooks only for consumers.
- ▪None of the web giant’s five current Googlebook hardware partners designed their first models for the education market or other fleet buyers.Those five, and many other OEMs, continue to crank out Chromebooks.Google’s support policy for Chro
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