Newly revealed court documents confirm Google’s plan to end support for its ChromeOS, the operating system behind Chromebooks, by 2034. It will be replaced by a new, unified system currently called “Aluminium OS.”
The details emerged from transcripts in the ongoing U.S. Department of Justice antitrust case against Google. While the company lost its battle against monopoly charges in web search, the documents shed light on its future software roadmap.
According to the court record, Google is obligated to support existing ChromeOS devices until at least 2033. This honors the company’s standard 10-year update promise to customers, especially critical for schools and businesses that invested in Chromebooks. After that, the phase-out will be complete by 2034.
ChromeOS launched in 2011 and found early success, particularly in the education sector, by offering affordable, cloud-centric laptops. Its reported successor, Aluminium OS, has been under active development since Google confirmed its plans in 2025. The goal is to merge Android and ChromeOS into a single platform for desktop machines and thin clients.
Technically, Aluminium OS is expected to be a variant of Android optimized for larger screens. It aims to run apps from both the Android and ChromeOS ecosystems and is being designed to work on both Arm and x86 processor architectures, a first for Google’s desktop efforts.