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ChromeOS Flex is an ideal off-ramp for millions of PCs that can’t run Windows 11

Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson) October 14, 2025, marks the end of support and security updates for the Home and Pro versions of Windows 10. That means it’s also the end of official guaranteed feature plus security updates for Windows PCs that don’t meet Windows 11’s hardware requirements . Viewed from early 2022, that date is […]

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The world’s second-most popular desktop operating system isn’t macOS anymore

Enlarge / Just a few of the Chromebooks we’ve reviewed and tested in recent years. (credit: Valentina Palladino) For ages now, every annual report on desktop operating system market share has had the same top two contenders: Microsoft’s Windows in a commanding lead at number one, and Apple’s macOS in distant second place. But in […]

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Google Purchased CloudReady, the Greatest ChromiumOS Supply

Expand / / CloudReady is an ChromeOS option built in the source readily available in ChromiumOS repositories, as CentOS was constructed out of Red Hat Enterprise Linux source code. Last week, Google obtained OS seller Neverware, manufacturers of this CloudReady supply of ChromiumOS. ChromiumOS is your completely open origin, abbreviated variant of ChromeOS–that the harshly […]