Google ending ChromeOS support two years early

Google’s basic mathematical skills appear a little fragile, after the company revealed its promise of ten years of support for new Chromebooks will only last for eight years. The web giant’s calculation problem appeared in a support document titled “What the Googlebook announcement means for your ChromeOS devices.” Googlebooks are the big G’s replacement for Chromebooks, the web-centric computers it launched in 2011 and which run ChromeOS. Chromebooks have won plenty of admirers in the education sector, especially schools which see them as a fine way to get decent and well-priced computers into kids’ hands without having to take on the burden of managing a full OS. The newer Googlebook range uses more powerful processors than their predecessors, plus a new OS called Googlebook OS that bakes in Google’s Gemini AI – a product the Chocolate Factory is very keen to see succeed as the great AI land grab continues. Google has so far launched Googlebooks only for consumers. …