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These apps were originally designed for Android phones, and they're not yet fully optimized for the Chromebook form factor. In a 30 November blog post, Microsoft said: 'Earlier this week, we released a preview of the Office Mobile apps for Google Chromebooks. So the recent news that Office Mobile for Android apps (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and OneNote) would be available for Chromebooks, initially in preview, was welcome. That leaves some three million 'regular' Android apps, although most will deliver a less than optimal experience on a Chromebook because they were originally written for the smartphone form factor: to rectify this, developers will need to adapt their apps for the Chromebook's larger screen and keyboard/touchpad input.ДЇor many business users, the availability of Microsoft's Office apps is crucial when selecting a computing platform.

There are 29 Chromebook vendors listed, offering a total of 93 devices: 57 have full Play Store support via Chrome OS's Stable Channel, two run the more regularly updated Beta Channel, while 34 have Android app support via the Play Store 'planned' for some time in the future.ДЄccording to AppBrain, there are currently just over 3.5 million Android apps in the Play Store, of which 13 percent are classified as 'low quality'. Here's the state of play at the time of writing (early December 2017): Google maintains a list of Chrome OS devices that support, or are planned to support, Android apps. Not every Chromebook will support the Play Store, however, because of differences in the hardware platform and other factors.

Platform developmentsДЄlthough the Chrome OS/Chromebook platform is doing well in the US education, retail, and financial markets, some recent developments could help it break out from these geographical and sectoral niches in future.Д«ack in May last year, Google announced that Android apps would become available on Chromebooks via the Google Play Store, greatly expanding the range of software available to Chrome OS users. Gartner forecasts that Chromebook shipments will continue to grow, to 10.9 million in 2017 and 11.9 million in 2018.

IDC's figures for the total PC market (which include Chromebooks) in those years are 275.8 million and 260.1 million respectively, which means that the Chromebook share is small but rising - from around 2.5 percent in 2015 to 3.6 percent in 2016. Gartner has estimated the number of Chromebooks shipped worldwide in 2015 at 6.8 million, rising to 9.4 million in 2016 - an impressive growth rate of 38.2 percent. 'After a strong holiday season at the end of 2016, the consumer PC market witnessed a comparative slow down this quarter with lower sell-out while the commercial PC market came out strong mostly backed by growth of Chromebooks.' Chromebooks remained a source of significant volume growth in the education-buying mid-quarters.' 'The US posted just a slight decline but otherwise also pulled ahead of forecast in part due to Chromebook activity. 'Despite the overall contraction, Chromebooks remain a source of optimism as the category gains momentum in sectors outside education, especially in retail and financial services.' Here are IDC's Chromebook-related statements from its recent quarterly PC market reports:

Gartner doesn't track Chromebooks at all in its PC market figures, but does include Windows tablets like Microsoft's Surface Pro. IDC includes Chromebooks in its quarterly PC market figures, but doesn't break out the numbers to allow comparisons between Chrome OS, Windows, and macOS systems (IDC numbers for 'traditional PCs' also exclude Windows tablets and detachable 2-in-1 devices). Unfortunately, assessing just how many Chromebooks have been sold is not made easy by the leading analyst firms. Will 2017 prove to be a watershed year for Chrome OS? A number of recent platform developments suggest it may be, but Microsoft has also woken up to the Chromebook challenge this year. However, Chromebooks remain a relatively rare sight in businesses.

Leaders share software-defined networking's benefits, obstacles, favored vendorsД¬hromebooks running Google's Chrome OS have made inroads into the education market in particular - thanks to their affordability and browser-based simplicity, and initiatives like Google for Education.

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