In a tech world still hindered by component shortages, choices have to be made. And in the world of laptops, Windows-based devices are being chosen over those running Chrome OS.

Chrome 89 is bringing more hardware interactions to the web and blurring the lines between the operating system and browser.

Google buys Neverware, a startup with Chrome OS variant that squeezes extra life out of old Windows PCs and Macs.

Alphabet's Google within two years plans to block a common way businesses track online surfers in its Chrome browser, endorsing costly changes to how the Web operates as it tries to satisfy increased privacy demands from users.

Microsoft is making a Chrome OS-like version of Windows

Google has announced a new Chromebook loaner program for businesses that's designed to get workers up and running with a temporary new machine within minutes.

Google today unveiled its experimental effort to integrate augmented reality features into the mobile and desktop web using its Chrome browser. That way, web designers, media organizations, and other creative professionals could create virtual 3D objects, embed them into websites for viewing on desktop, and make them downloadable on mobile so users could place those objects into their real world surroundings.

It has been quite some time since we uncovered the first evidence of the first AMD-powered Chromebook and we are still waiting to see the materialization of said device. Over a year in the works, the AMD platform on Chrome OS is still very much alive and moving forward.

In a recent blog post, Microsoft set out to explain why Edge is so lacking in extensions compared to Google Chrome.

Google has a plan to protect users of its market-leading Chrome web browsers from intrusive ads. It's a plan that could make the web browsing experience better for tens of millions of people. But it could also raise thorny questions about Google's growing market power.

The Chromebook Plus is powered by an unnamed ARM-based chipset, but it seems most likely that this is either an Exynos chipset or one from Rockchip, the latter being the most likely based on the evidence we've seen so far.

Windows XP users will get another 18 months free of worry from security holes in Google's Chrome browser.

Shopping for a laptop or portable computer these days feels a lot like shopping for a toothbrush. There's an inexhaustible variety of sizes, colors and shapes. There are Windows tablets, Windows tablets that become laptops and then just your average Windows laptops. There's the iPad and then a massive selection of Android tablets. There's also Apple's family of MacBooks.

Sometime in 1998 or 1999, Internet Explorer (IE) became the number one Web browser in the world. In October 2011, according to NetMarketShare, IE is barely above the 50% mark of desktop browsers with 52.63%.

Google's Chrome has now integrated Adobe's Flash directly into the browser.