{"id":286264,"date":"2018-11-22T11:30:18","date_gmt":"2018-11-22T09:30:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=286264"},"modified":"2018-11-22T11:30:49","modified_gmt":"2018-11-22T09:30:49","slug":"microsoft-working-with-google-on-chrome-for-windows-10-on-arm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/286264-microsoft-working-with-google-on-chrome-for-windows-10-on-arm.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft working with Google on Chrome for Windows 10 on ARM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google is being assisted by Microsoft as it works to bring Google Chrome to Microsoft&#8217;s Windows 10 on ARM platform,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/9to5google.com\/2018\/11\/19\/microsoft-google-chrome-windows-10-arm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>9to5Google\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>reports.<\/p>\n<p>This move comes as Windows 10 tries to catch up with other operating systems regarding support for ARM computers.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, Windows 10 on ARM users can emulate an x86 processor to use traditional Windows applications like Chrome for Windows 10.<\/p>\n<p>However, this emulation slows down these ARM devices greatly, effectively forcing users to utilise the built-in, ARM-compatible Microsoft Edge browser instead.<\/p>\n<p>While a partnership between Windows and Google has not officially been announced, two Microsoft developers have been contributing a significant amount of assistance to the project.<\/p>\n<p>This news is surprising given how Windows has previously\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/275225-windows-10-warns-users-not-to-install-chrome-and-firefox.html\"><strong>taken significant steps<\/strong><\/a> to tout its Edge browser over alternatives on Windows 10.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft and Google have previously worked together to bring Windows 10 dual-boot functionality to the Pixelbook.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Qualcomm recently told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.androidauthority.com\/qualcomm-google-chrome-arm-916345\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Android Authority<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0that it is also working on the Chrome for Windows 10 on ARM initiative.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/security\/286192-amazon-mistakenly-leaks-customer-data.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">Amazon mistakenly leaks customer data<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The move is surprising given how Windows has been taking significant steps to tout its Edge browser over the alternatives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341039,"featured_media":217834,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2752,1567,123,3524],"class_list":["post-286264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-software","tag-arm","tag-chrome","tag-microsoft","tag-qualcomm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286264"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341039"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286264"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":286324,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286264\/revisions\/286324"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}