Aluminium OS could reshape PC software, but timeline and antitrust risk loom

The Verge reports Google’s Aluminium OS—an Android-ChromeOS merger for PCs—may not ship fully until 2028, with a tentative late-2026 tester phase. Aluminium likely won’t support all existing Chromebook hardware and could require maintaining ChromeOS through 2033, potentially phasing it out by 2034 to meet 10-year update commitments. If Aluminium becomes largely Android for PCs, Google-first apps and store might lock in users, raising competition concerns and complicating ongoing antitrust remedies in cases like Epic v. Google.