Google Partners Up With VMWare For Windows Access on ChromeOS

Rajen Sheth on the Official Google Enterprise Blog:

Today, customers can fully embrace the cloud with Chromebooks using VMware Horizon™ DaaS®. VMware and Google are working together to make the migration of legacy applications even easier, by using the HTML5/Blast experience from Chromebooks. This means you can work with Chromebooks and connect to a Windows experience running VMWare™ Horizon View.

There’s a lot of serious™ words® there™®, but in plain English: buy a cheap Chromebook for work. If you’ve got legacy apps that you can’t run in ChromeOS, you can get a remote Windows VM.

Pretty smart way for Google to migrate all the old clapped-out enterprise PCs onto Chromebooks instead of another fleet of Dell Inspirons or HP Pavilions.

Not out yet, but ‘available soon’ in the Chrome Web Store.