Google has gone to great lengths to ensure the security of Chrome OS with features like Verified Boot, which ensures the integrity of operating system components as they load. All the various attack surfaces and vectors that are prone to Android OS were now susceptible with Chrome OS, including malicious Android applications, and possible exploits stemming from vulnerabilities that effect both Operating Systems. Despite the obvious benefits, operating as an Android OS also brought complications. Therefore, the only option to install additional capabilities into the device, besides the Chrome browser’s capabilities, was with Chrome Browser Extensions.Īs development progressed, Google introduced more capabilities, and finally introduced Chrome OS Android application support. It had no substantial disk space as it was intended to save and operate all the content in Google’s cloud such as Google Docs, Google Drive, etc. Initially, Chrome OS was a limited operating system that allowed only the execution of Chrome browser.
They have steadily gained market share, particularly as a replacement for much higher priced tablets, even more so since the advent of the ability to natively run Android applications on Chromebooks, a feature introduced initially in 2017. Ever since their introduction in 2011, Chromebooks, running Chrome OS – an operating system developed by Google, based on the open source Chromium OS project, have been lauded for their high functionality and competitive pricing.
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