Google acquires Cameyo to combine Home windows app virtualization into ChromeOS

Google is buying software program virtualization firm Cameyo in a push to deeply combine virtualized Home windows app assist into ChromeOS. Google was already working intently with Cameyo, and now it’s bringing this key virtualization experience and expertise in-house.

Google partnered with Cameyo final 12 months to ship a digital software expertise for legacy Home windows desktop apps that was built-in into ChromeOS. This included native file system integration, digital apps as progressive internet apps, and even enhanced clipboard assist.

Cameyo’s Digital App Supply (VAD) integration into ChromeOS is designed for companies that want to transfer away from Home windows and even add some ChromeOS gadgets into the combo. It permits companies to proceed operating virtualized Home windows apps on ChromeOS with out exposing a full model of Home windows in order that apps simply really feel like they’re operating on ChromeOS aspect by aspect with Chrome and different internet apps.

“This acquisition will result in even deeper integration of those virtualized apps into ChromeOS,” says Cameyo co-founder and CMO Robb Henshaw in a press release to The Verge. “Additional integrations will enhance not solely the top consumer expertise, but in addition make it even easier for IT admins to deploy and push these apps out to their customers.”

As increasingly more apps transfer to the cloud and web-based applied sciences, Google has a giant alternative to entice extra companies to think about ChromeOS over Home windows — particularly with improved virtualized app assist from Cameyo.

Google has been on a mission to push Chromebooks in training and enterprise after a fairly lukewarm response from shoppers to ChromeOS. Most of Google’s Chromebook progress has come from the US training sector, with US shipments accounting for greater than 80 p.c of world Chromebook shipments in Q2 2023, based on Canalys.