Google Test feature will allow running Windows system on Pixelbook

Hopes to learn more about AltOS at the annual Google I / O 2018 Developers Conference scheduled for next May.

Google announced in early October that Pixelbook, a hybrid Chrome OS notebook, and because the computer is running this system, it has not attracted many users who do not make Chrome OS really a genuine operating system, plus the price of the device that Is about US $ 1000.

But Google seems to have realized that a user will not sacrifice this amount for a Chrome OS computer with computers in the same category at a quarter of that price. Do they follow Apple's example, which also realizes that most people prefer Windows, Beside its MacOS.

Signs in the latest version of Chrome OS show that Google is testing a new AltOS mode, which means that the company will support the addition of an alternative operating system to the Pixelbook, similar to Apple's Macbook computers.

One says that a document from inside Google was found as "go / vboot-windows", indicating that Windows will be a supported platform. Another hint is that there is a screen to choose the operating system, giving Pixelbook users a choice between Chrome OS and AltOS when running their devices.

AltOS is believed to also be linked to the equally ambiguous Fuchsia OS operating system that Google has been working on for two years. Though speculation suggests Fuchsia may replace Android and Chrome OS.

This, and hopes to know more about AltOS at the annual Google I / O 2018 Developers Conference scheduled for next May.

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