A full-featured one-month trial with five user licenses is available for businesses that wish to give it a try. Parallels Desktop for Chromebook Enterprise is available now and costs $69.99 per user per year. Parallels Desktop for Chromebook Enterprise can also be run full-screen, of course. The product also supports dynamic screen resolution so that you can drag the app window to resize it and automatically scale the contained Windows environment to match. But Parallels tells me that that feature is on the roadmap and will be available soon.īut even in 1.0 form, Parallels Desktop for Chromebook Enterprise supports a lot of useful functionality, including cross-platform capabilities like a shared clipboard, user profile, and custom folders.
What’s missing in this first generation release are some of the niceties we see today in more established versions of Parallels Desktop, such as Coherence mode on Mac, which lets users run Windows apps side-by-side next to macOS apps. Which apps are installed can be controlled by the business using the Google Admin console, and licensing is handled on the backend as well, so users can just get to work.
Parallels Desktop for Chromebook Enterprise lets businesses enable a new feature in Chrome OS that will download a Windows 10 virtual machine (VM) image, install it on users’ Chromebooks, and make available any Windows applications those users need.
