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All new Chromebooks will get eight years of software updates
Google has announced that all new Chromebooks will be supported with eight years of automatic software updates, as part of a chance to its AUE policy.
In Western countries, Chrome OS occupies an interesting niche of the personal computing market: education. The popularity of Chromebooks varies regionally: over the past few years, they have become very popular in markets such as the US and Western Europe, whereas their popularity still remains low in markets such as India. In the US and Western Europe, however, Chromebooks have become increasingly indispensable for students and educators because of their simplicity of use, affordability, and the useful feature of automatic software updates. Forty million students and educators use Chromebooks as of now, according to Google. Now, at the BETT event in London, the company has made more education-focused announcements for Chromebooks. The company is now extending the length of time it plans to support new Chrome OS education devices with security and platform updates, as part of a chance to its Chrome OS Automatic Update (AUE) policy. Automatic updates on Chrome OS provide security fixes as well as new features.