Google is about to fix the most annoying thing about Chromebooks
(Android Central)

A partnership with Parallels brings Windows apps to Chromebooks through a virtual machine. If you`re one of the many people wishing your Chromebook could run legacy Windows applications like Microsoft Office, Google has your back. We learned earlier that Google planned to use its new partnership with Parallels, a company that specializes in making a lightweight virtual machine, to allow legacy Windows apps to function on Chrome OS. Now, in an interview with The Verge, Chrome OS product manager Cyrus Mistry has detailed how things are planned to work. Your Chromebook will run Windows inside its own virtual machine. Parallels is a familiar name for folks who need to run Windows software on a MacBook. The company makes a program that installs just like any other native application, but when you run it you`re able to load a full operating system inside it. You`re then able to open that operating system as an application inside MacOS. Once you have the virtual machine running Win...