The date of October 14 is checked in the calendar of all Windows 10 users. This day will mark the end of the operating system support by Microsoft. Fortunately, the most attached to Windows 10 will soon be able to join the ESU program in order to continue to take advantage of the updates for an additional year.
The others will have to turn to Windows 11 or Windows 12, expected this fall. Microsoft will have to deal with a new competitor from 2026. Google has just announced the arrival Android for PC for next year.
Google announces the arrival of a version of Android for PC, its own operating system
Google made a major revelation at the Snapdragon Summit opening conference organized in Maui in Hawaii. The alphabet subsidiary works on a Version of Android thought for PCs.
« This is another way of taking advantage of all the great work that we are doing together on our AI battery, our complete battery, integrating the Gemini models, the assistant, all our applications and our community of developers in the field of PCs. And I think that is another way which Android will be able to serve everyone in all computer categories. “Said Rick Osterloh, senior vice-president in charge of devices and services at Google.
Google is associated with Qualcomm To develop its operating system designed as a fusion of Chromeos and Android. The role of the company specializing in the development of processors in this project remains to be determined. One can imagine that Qualcomm will develop fleas for PCs with Android, he who equips the latest smartphones of the Snapdragon Elite 8 Gen 5.
Sameer Samat, president of the Android ecosystem at Google, takes See you with the public in 2026. « The opportunity that is available to us is to accelerate all the progress we have made in terms of AI on Android and transpose them as quickly as possible to laptops, while ensuring that the latter and the rest of the Android ecosystem operate transparent together (…). This is something that enthuses us a lot for next year ». Microsoft and Apple can start to worry.
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