You can also sign in using your Facebook or Google account. If you do not have an account yet, you can sign up for a new account now. If you already have a Zoom account, log in using your username and password. All you need is a meeting ID or a personal link name.Įnter the meeting ID, provide a screen name (the name that will appear on the meeting screen) and click Join. You can use the Zoom app without logging in or creating an account. Pin Zoom to Chromebook taskbar Join a Zoom Meeting First, open the app, and while it is open, right-click the icon and choose Pin. If you use the app regularly, you can pin the zoom desktop client to the taskbar. Open the Chromebook launcher and click the Zoom app icon. You can launch the Zoom app using the Launch app button soon after installing it. Click Launch app Launch the Zoom App/Client
Google Chrome will now download Zoom and install it on your Chromebook. Head over to Chrome Web Store here and install the official Zoom app.Ĭlick Add to Chrome to install the app. Click Install and follow the prompts to install Zoom. You can install the official Zoom app from the Google Play Store here. Zoom has an official Progressive Web App (PWA) that you can install from the Google Play Store. Finally, the company announced that it will be enabling multiple virtual work areas with the ability to drag-and-drop between them, along with the ability to group tabs and search for tabs in the Chrome browser, which should be ready in the next couple of months.In this article, I will walk you through installing and setting up Zoom on your Chrome OS.Ĭan you install the Zoom app on your Chromebook? In another nod to making life easier for IT, Google is offering a new set of certified applications like Salesforce, Zoom and Palo Alto Networks that have been certified to work well on Chrome OS. That means these machines are equipped with the right settings, policies, applications, certificates and so forth, as though IT had set up the machine for the user. “We can do what’s called zero touch, which is the devices can be already enrolled by the manufacturers, which means they will know the domain and they can now drop ship directly,” Mistry explained.
Mistry acknowledges that companies running Windows this way will need to issue higher-end Chromebooks with the resources to handle this approach, but for companies with critical Windows applications, this is a good way to extend the usage of Chromebooks to a broader population of users. To help with the latter categories, the company also announced the availability of Parallels for Chrome OS, which will enable companies with Windows applications that can’t run on Chrome OS to run them natively in Windows in a virtual machine. The tools issues a report with three colors: green is good to go, yellow is probable and red is definitely not ready.Īfter a brief pause, Google restarts Chrome and Chrome OS releases
For starters, they have created a free readiness tool that lets IT get the lay of the land of which applications are ready to run on Chrome OS, and which aren’t. To that end, Cyrus Mistry, group product manager at Google says that they want to make it easier for IT to implement Chrome OS and they’ve added a bunch of features to help. “With COVID-19, the need for that productive, distributed workforce with some employees in office, but mostly is really in the sights of businesses everywhere, and it is rapidly accelerating that move,” Maletis told TechCrunch. While the shift to the cloud has been ongoing over the last few years, the pandemic has definitely pushed companies to move faster, says John Maletis, project manager for engineering and UX for Chrome OS. But most enterprise use cases are a bit more complex, and Google introduced some new features today to make it easier for IT to distribute machines running Chrome OS. As companies have moved to work from home this year, working on the internet has become the norm, and it turns out that Chrome OS was an operating system built for cloud-based applications.