On September 29th, news from the IT community reported that after Google officially released its new Googlebook laptops, many people began to wonder what would happen to the Chromebook products, which are particularly familiar to users, especially students. Google has stated that it will gradually stop pushing ChromeOS system updates by the middle of 2034. This timeline is in line with the plans previously recorded in court documents, and now this plan has been officially finalized.

In a support document issued to Chrome information technology administrators in the corporate and education sectors, Google states: "Many of our new Chromebook devices will be eligible to migrate to the Googlebook operating system." However, the document does not list specific models yet, nor does it explain how the upgrade will be implemented.

According to IT, Chromebook originally had a ten-year technical support period. If your Chromebook device's official support period could have continued beyond 2034, Google has stated to education and enterprise administrators: "Google will assist you in transitioning to the Googlebook operating system, with multiple devices offering direct migration pathways."

Googlebook The product also continues the ten-year update and security patch maintenance mechanism of Chromebook, except that the maintenance cycle will be calculated from the release time of the device's built-in central processing unit.

This document also reveals that the device management feature applicable to Googlebook will be launched in the second half of 2027. This also means that the first batch of Googlebook devices for enterprises may still need to wait for some time. The upgrade licenses for the Chrome educational and enterprise versions are not interchangeable with those for Googlebook. If information technology administrators upgrade Chromebook to the Googlebook operating system or purchase new machines directly, they will need to use a completely new license agreement. Google has not yet announced the specific terms of this license.

For now, it seems that the style of the Googlebook operating system is closer to that of the Android system compared to ChromeOS. In this support document, Google states that although the system supports Android applications, the company will continue to serve web developers as well. The document reads: "We will continue to ensure the manageability of web applications for information technology administrators, while providing web developers with a complete set of application programming interfaces."

Googlebook is now available for pre-order, and will be officially released on October 4th.