Google today announced it has partnered with VMWare to bring Windows desktops and applications to Chrome OS. More specifically, if you own a Chromebook, you can now use VMware Horizon DaaS to manage Microsoft’s platform using the company’s Blast HTML5 technology.
VMware Horizon DaaS isn’t just for Chrome OS: in general, it allows customers to manage desktop environments as a cloud service. The news today is that Chromebook owners can participate as well, taking advantage of DaaS in the cloud or within hybrid deployments.
Google’s timing is excellent, given the many businesses currently looking at all their options regarding the end of Windows XP support, which is less than two months away:
This means you can work with Chromebooks and connect to a Windows experience running VMWare Horizon View. As the countdown to Windows XP end of life continues, deploying Chromebooks and taking advantage of a DaaS environment ensures that security vulnerabilities, application compatibility and migration budgets will be a thing of the past.
VMware Horizon View 5.3 works on Chromebooks now as an on-premise service. The technology will also be available “soon” as an application that can be installed from the Chrome Web Store, but unfortunately Google wouldn’t offer a specific date.
See also – Google Now arrives in latest Chrome OS build and Google offers $2.7 million in rewards at Pwnium 4 hacking contest for Chrome OS
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