Google took over the company Neverware , which released the CloudReady distribution, which is a assembly a > Chromium OS for legacy hardware and devices not originally bundled with Chrome OS. The amount of the deal was not disclosed.
Google intends to save free edition CloudReady Home a >, which differs from the commercial version by the lack of tools for centralized management of a group of computers in educational institutions and enterprises. Moreover, Google intends to integrate CloudReady developments into the main part of Chrome OS and offer an official product for using Chrome OS on arbitrary hardware, not only on Chromebooks and Chromeboxes. Current users will have the option to update their systems to the new Chrome OS variant. Support for the new product will be similar to current support for Chrome OS.