The ability to open Windows and run software native to the Windows OS on a Chromebook is here thanks to Parallels for Chromebooks! Giving you the best of both worlds if you are deep within a Chrome OS device for work.
The software can be downloaded to Chrome OS where it will then launch a virtual Windows 10 machine. From there, you can do everything you’d like within Windows. It can easily be deployed to a system by IT departments and everything. Of course, that last part opens us up to one little catch. It only works for Chrome Enterprise users (not normal consumer Chrome devices–sorry guys). So there is that.
However, if you are using a Chrome device at/for work, this opens a whole new world of applications to you that you didn’t have previously due to the more limited OS experience that Chrome has to offer (sorry Google).
Like most professional VM experiences, you’ll be able to share your clipboard between operating systems, as well as shared user profile/files, shared custom folders, shared printing, and the ability to change the resolution of the window by resizing it with your mouse. You can easily suspend Windows and come back to it later by jumping right back into where you left off. I mean, it’s a VM!
Your other option, of course, is to buy into a real laptop that has Windows 10 on it, but who am I to judge. At least this method is more affordable, and you may not have a say so in what the company you work for buys into for their computing needs.
It is available for $69.99 per user and is available now. You can learn more about it here.
