

While Google is still struggling to bring support for Google Play Store and Android apps to most Chromebooks, CrossOver now lets you run Windows apps. There you have it, you should be able to run Window’s app on your Chromebook now.After more than a year in testing, CrossOver's ChromeOS support is now finally open to everyone, allowing Chromebook owners to run Windows apps on their computers running Google's ChromeOS.Ĭhromebooks usually come with ChromeOS pre-installed, which is a Linux-based operating system created by Google around the Chromium-based Google Chrome web browser. Once you’re done installing it, you can launch it as you normally would and viola, full blown Classic Winamp! Once you have the installer, launch CrossOver on Chrome OS Beta, navigate to the exe file, and install it as you would on a Windows PC. It’s a perfect app to illustrate a good ol’ classic Windows app.

For the purpose of this guide, we downloaded the Winamp installer. With CrossOver installed, go find your favorite Windows app and download it. So far this app is nothing short of impressive, as it not only lets Windows app run on Chromebooks, but the list of compatible software is impressive too! 2. The CrossOver on Chrome OS Beta allows user to run Windows software on Intel-based Chromebooks.
