Google just killed our dreams of dual-booting Windows on Chromebooks

Any sliver of hope Chromebook owners had for being able to dual-boot into Chrome OS and Windows has, well, flown out the window. The initiative behind this feature, dubbed "Alt OS" in the Chromium Gerrit, has been deprecated according to a recent commit.

Redditor crosfrog picked up on that commit, submitted yesterday, which deprecated all Alt OS code.

Given that Alt OS — or "Project Campfire," as it was internally known at Google — was never public, it's just as expected that it would disappear unceremoniously.

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Google just killed our dreams of dual-booting Windows on Chromebooks was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

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Jules Wang

Any sliver of hope Chromebook owners had for being able to dual-boot into Chrome OS and Windows has, well, flown out the window. The initiative behind this feature, dubbed "Alt OS" in the Chromium Gerrit, has been deprecated according to a recent commit.

Redditor crosfrog picked up on that commit, submitted yesterday, which deprecated all Alt OS code.

Given that Alt OS — or "Project Campfire," as it was internally known at Google — was never public, it's just as expected that it would disappear unceremoniously.

Read More

Google just killed our dreams of dual-booting Windows on Chromebooks was written by the awesome team at Android Police.

http://bit.ly/2VD01j3 May 15, 2019 at 06:24PM