From the «impressive!» department:
Feed: OSnews
Title: Chromebooks will get 10 years of automatic updates
Author: Thom Holwerda
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2023 19:44:42 -0400
Link:
https://www.osnews.com/story/137086/chromebooks-will-get-10-years-of-automatic-updates/
Security is our number one priority. Chromebooks get automatic updates every four weeks that make your laptop more secure and help it last longer. And starting next year, we’re extending those automatic updates so your Chromebook
gets enhanced security, stability and features for 10 years after the platform was released[1].
A platform is a series of components that are designed to work together — something a manufacturer selects for any given Chromebook. To ensure compatibility with our updates, we work with all the component manufacturers within a platform (for things like the processor and Wi-Fi) to develop and
test the software on every single Chromebook.
Starting in 2024, if you have Chromebooks that were released from 2021
onwards, you’ll automatically get 10 years of updates. For Chromebooks released before 2021 and already in use, users and IT admins will have the option to extend automatic updates to 10 years from the platform’s release (after they receive their last automatic update).[2]
A good thing… Without any additional strings other than are already attached to
a Chromebook? This can’t be.
In all seriousness, ten years of updates for laptops that are often quite cheap and disposable is simply good news, and ensures that Chromebooks can be passed on for longer than they could before.
Links:
[1]:
https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/education/automatic-update-extension-chromebook/ (link)
[2]:
https://blog.google/outreach-initiatives/education/automatic-update-extension-chromebook/#footnote-1 (link)
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