MS Office coming to Chrome OS courtesy Google


MS Office is the most popular productivity suite used by millions of men and women across the country. Users love its versatile features and the ability it provides to create so much on your device. Google, the search engine giant has entered into a partnership with a software company called Parallels to bring not just MS Office but many other Windows apps to its Chromebooks. This is indeed great news for students who use light and fast Chromebooks for their education as they will benefit greatly with Windows applications. MS Office support to these notebooks will give a big boost to their stature and help them in capturing new markets.


However, there is a small catch in this news item. MS Office and other Windows applications can be run on Chrome OS only by enterprise users.  Google is not very ecstatic about the development it seems as it disclosed the news in a blog post, adding that more info will be shared with the customers in the coming months. John Solomon, who is the Vice President of Chrome Operating System has welcome this partnership by saying that availability of Windows native applications will add new functionalities for the owners of Chromebooks.


Those who do not know anything about Parallels, it is the same company that helped in introducing native Windows apps to devices running on Mac OS.  The company has expertise in virtualization and creates virtual environment in which native applications work seamlessly. It is still not clear whether this feature would be available to individual owners of Chromebooks at a later point of time or not.

Google has always desired MS Office support for its Chromebooks. Way back in 2018, when Google had given the name Pixelbook to its light and fast notebook running on Chrome OS, it was planning on a system of dual boot that allowed its notebooks to load Windows native applications.

The latest offering from Google in association with Parallels, is expected to be available to enterprise users of Chromebooks any time later this year. When contacted, representatives of Parallels confirmed the development and said that it might be a reality by October 2020.

This integration of native Windows apps across platforms with the help of virtualization will be very beneficial for companies where employees make use of different operating systems in their devices. Whether your employees are using Windows based devices or Macs, they can now enjoy working on MS Office and other Windows applications seamlessly. Now the same will be the case for workers using Chromebooks.

Online MS Office support for Chromebooks will boost the productivity of not just students but also the executives and employees working in small and medium sized businesses. In tough times when corona virus has forced millions of people to work from home, this new capability will come as a boon for the owners of notebooks from Google. Remote working is the new reality of modern times and availability of the most popular productivity app like MS Office on Chromebooks is going to be a revolutionary step. 


 

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