Posted on 02/16/2024 8:17:19 AM PST by yesthatjallen
Google will allow businesses to install an auto-updating version of the Chrome operating system to Windows devices, potentially preventing millions of PCs from hitting landfills after Microsoft (MSFT.O), opens new tab ends support for Windows 10 next year, parent company Alphabet (GOOGL.O), opens new tab said on Wednesday.
The company said ChromeOS Flex will continue receiving regular security updates and features like data encryption, allowing users to keep using their Windows 10 systems.
Microsoft has said that its Windows 10 will reach the end of support on Oct. 14 2025, and will no longer provide regular security updates, bug fixes, or technical support. It has asked customers to transition to Windows 11 or explore other options.
However, a report from Canalys Research suggests that the termination of Windows 10 support could send about 240 million PCs to landfills, as demand for devices without security updates could be low.
Still, many PCs with Windows 10 could remain functional for years after the end of OS support.
ChromeOS is significantly less popular than other operating systems. In January 2024, it held a 1.8% share of the worldwide desktop OS market, far behind Windows' share of about 73%, according to data from research firm Statcounter.
ChromeOS has struggled with wider adaptability due to its incompatibility with legacy Windows applications and productivity suites used by businesses.
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Yup! They’ll clean up in the unwary fools who install that crap.
But beware: ChromeOS is NOT Windows and is incompatible with most Windows programs
Replacing Windows 10 with ChromeOS is an "upgrade" of sorts, but it's not like you're getting Windows 10 "extended support". If you want that past the EOL date, you probably have to be a big company with a Windows Volume License, and you have to fork over some pretty big cash to Microsoft.
ChromeOS is Linux. Or at least Linux-based. There's been so much inbreeding between the UNIX variants that they've created the umbrella term "UNIX-like" to cover them all.
Strictly speaking, there's one more: You can try to negotiate with Microsoft for extended support past EOL, but you have to have some serious pull (big company, volume licensing, pallets of cash,...).
... at least on this planet.
It exists solely to invade your privacy and manipulate your thought processes. If you use any G**gle product (without first making some technically-astute modifications), you're as much as begging for a proctological exam every time you fire up a PC or handheld digital device.
This old machine will make one heck of a Linux box, which conversion will take all of about an hour, Lord knows I've done that a few dozen times. And the games will run fine on a standalone or a virtual box. It's not even as painful as it used to be. Microsoft wants a divorce, I won't contest.
I read about that but appreciate the heads up. I was doing well with Linux Mint on the old machine (2011 is computer old) and this new one is a $1200 screamer from Amazon marked down to $260.
So I’ll probably shuffle partition and go Penguin again, retaining Windows for off-line use like games and snobbish applications.
Neither Mint nor Unbuntu will feed most of your metadata back to Google’s servers...
Just sayin’...
CentOS used to be in that category as well... :-(
Yep that's the ticket.
I run Mac hardware and use MacOS as my on-the-metal OS, but have VMware VMs of Linux and Windows. I often have all three running simultaneously on different monitors and copy/paste between, etc.
For offline use I have Windows 7 and Windows 10 VMs. I don't intend to use Windows 11 myself; enough is enough. My job may require Win11 in the future, but they will pay me well to mess with that. :-)
It most certainly will if you're foolish enough to use a G**gle-branded browser (or most anything else that's G**gle-branded).
Iceweasel, Brave, and Libre Office. GIMP for a photo editor...
Life is good.
(who he's seen naked.)
The good ole days when SNL was funny (sigh).
That's a good setup - people here continually badmouth Apple but you get dependability and support that's not figuratively shaking you upside down to snatch up the last coins falling from your pockets.
Bad enough my pre-installed Windows 10 has an app sitting in the tray wanting me to install Win 11 - and they've got that in there so hard I'd have to fool around with the registry to remove it. So I defer and leave it be as a reminder why I don't like nor trust them.
“Now why would a PC World article need a headline like that?”
PC World? Link is Reuters.
Iff subject...isn’t there a Tech Group on FR? I want to see if ppl have ideas about secure “cloud” services, ie mega and sinc
Ask dayglored.
Off subject...isn’t there a Tech Group on FR? I want to see if ppl have ideas about secure “cloud” services, ie mega and sinc
> Off subject...isn’t there a Tech Group on FR? I want to see if ppl have ideas about secure “cloud” services, ie mega and sinc
Contact ShadowAce who runs the Tech Ping List.
Follow-up. I run the Windows Ping List, so if your topic involves specifically Windows you can direct it at me as well.
Thanks
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