This seems like some wonky hack where you're running a Windows VM on a remote server and sending the GUI back to the Chromebook.
Is there any real reason you couldn't just install Windows on Chromebook hardware? Do they lock the bootloader?
Is there any real reason you couldn't just install Windows on Chromebook hardware? Do they lock the bootloader?
Device sharing is also facilitated by the DaaS approach. Any user can log on to any device at any time and see an uninterrupted work flow. For emerging societies and especially their students this can be a huge benefit. There are many environments where sharing inexpensive hardware without penalty can be a sea change. The lack of Windows is a penalty whether we like that or not. :-)
Getting Windows up natively on Chromebooks is possibly possible depending upon the machine. ARM based Chromebooks are obviously a non-starter for running x86/x64 Windows. For Intel systems it can be made to work using coreboot firmware to boot into Windows but the install process tends to be fairly involved and non-user-friendly and device specific, sort of like building a hackintosh.