According to Chrome Unboxed, an inside source says that Parallels will end support for ChromeOS by the end of the year. It's been roughly 18 months since an update was issued for the application, and now it seems that the experiment will end once and for all.

While Parallels for ChromeOS may be on the way out, the concept of Windows apps on the best Chromebooks is not dead. Cameyo, which was acquired by Google earlier this year, uses Virtual App Delivery (VAD) to let people run Windows apps on ChromeOS. Rather than having an entire virtual desktop, Cameyo lets you run individual apps through VAD.

While it’s a viable way to get legacy apps running on Chrome OS, its presence on Chromebooks also presents a few paradoxes. One is that you need to have a higher-powered Chromeb