By Ben Schoon
Publication Date: 2026-01-15 16:20:00
The future of ChromeOS is a bit messy at the moment, with Google’s exact plans for the future of Chromebooks and a new Android base being somewhat of a mystery. In a new interview, though, a Google VP offers a bit of information around future support for ChromeOS as we know it today, as well as what owners can expect in regards to whether or not they’ll be able upgrade.
While Google has not abandoned ChromeOS by any means, the looming “AluminiumOS” project lurks in the background. The supposed reworking of ChromeOS to be based on Android has been in development for some time, and it brings a lot of questions along with it.
Among those are how existing Chromebooks will fare in this new future, and a new interview between Google VP John Maletis and ChromeUnboxed provides some answers.
Maletis, VP of Product Management for ChromeOS at Google for the past four years, says directly that ChromeOS, and existing Chromebooks, won’t be abandoned,…
