Collabora Productivity, the company that develops one of LibreOffice's cloud implementations (possibly the best known), has announced the availability of Collabora Office for Chrome OS, Google's cloud-oriented desktop operating system.
Chromebooks are becoming increasingly popular, which has gradually made more applications available for Chrome OS appear. The version of Collabora Office for the Google desktop system wants to stand out from its rivals, offering above all privacy to users. Collabora Productivity highlights the desire of many users to control their own data and the growing concern for digital sovereignty, in addition to the recent invalidation by the European Union High Court of Justice of the privacy shield between the European Union and the United States for conflict with the GDPR.
Another point to highlight about Collabora Office for Chrome OS is that it is focused on the education sector, something that is influenced by the low price of many Chromebook models and the support for both OOXML document formats (DOCX, XLSX, PPTX ...) as ODF (ODT, ODS, ODP ...).
Continuing with the features, Collabora Productivity recalls that “private friendly cloud storage solutions, such as Nextcloud and ownCloud, provide plug-ins for Chrome OS that allow users to save directly to their private cloud, without having to save on the device first, after which the file would be saved directly to the Google or Microsoft storage server as well.”
With Chrome OS fully supported and with the arrival of version 4.2.5 of the Android application, Collabora Productivity products currently support iOS, Windows, Android, Chromebooks, and Linux, in addition to web browsers as a more abstract interface versus to the operating system.
Collaborate Office for Chrome OS is available on the Google Play Store for two processor platforms, x86 and AMD64. The former is required to run native on Chromebooks and the latter to cover 64-bit. However, this is not the first version of Collabora Office that works on Chrome OS, since the first compilations of the Android application could be used in an emulated way on the Google desktop system, although with a loss of performance and an upgradeable experience.
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