12/24/2022 0 Comments Google chrome word replacer![]() ![]() Think about the person who just uses email, office tools and watches a little Netflix. If you simplified everything to a browser, an office suite and web access to your favorite tools, you would have just about everything you need without all of the management headaches associated with owning a PC with a traditional OS sitting on it. Most people don’t need a modern notebook computer, and the hardware required to run full-strength operating systems contributes to the high cost of the underlying machine, something Google discovered long ago. ![]() Regardless, the end-result of this is a low-end business (or personal) laptop that gets most of its power from the cloud. In fact, you can run any software service you wish in Chrome, including Microsoft’s cloud office tools. The Chrome browser is the primary desktop environment Google Workspace (aka G Suite) is the default set of office suite apps with word processor, spreadsheet and presentation software along with email and calendar and other services. That’s exactly what Google has done with Chrome and Chromebooks for over a decade, working with partners to deliver low-cost hardware with most required compute work taking place in the cloud. But what if you stretched that idea a bit by taking Microsoft 365 with Office apps and threw it onto a low-cost PC and used the Edge browser as your primary way of interacting with the computer? Now you have something that could compete directly with a Chromebook-style computer. It’s taking a Windows desktop and moving it fully virtualized to the cloud, where you can run it from anywhere, giving you a replica of your Windows desktop PC in the cloud. To be clear, the cloud PC announcement wasn’t related to hardware at all. ![]() While Windows 365 is about packaging a virtual Windows business desktop in a cloud context, if you think about the announcement in a different way, perhaps it could herald the beginning of a lightweight, cloud-based version of Windows - something that has been talked about for some time. When Microsoft announced this morning that it was releasing a cloud PC service called Windows 365, it got me thinking. ![]()
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