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Chrome Remote Desktop
Developer(s)Google, Inc.
Initial releaseOctober 8, 2011 (2011-10-08)[1]
Stable release
63.0.3239.17 / November 6, 2017 (2017-11-06)
Operating systemChrome OS, Linux (beta), OS X, iOS, Windows, Android
TypeRemote desktop software
LicenseBSD [2]
Websitechrome.google.com/remotedesktop

Chrome Remote Desktop is a remote desktop software tool developed by Google that allows a user to remotely control another computer using a Chromoting protocol developed by Google. It transmits the keyboard and mouse events from one computer to another, relaying the graphical screen updates back in the other direction, over a network.

Chrome Remote Desktop requires the use of Google Chrome, along with the installation of an extension from the Chrome Web Store.

Chrome Remote Desktop supports both a remote assistance mode, allowing a user to control another person's computer (typically to diagnose or troubleshoot a problem) as well as a remote desktop mode where a user can connect to another one of his or her own machines remotely.[3] While remote assistance login via PIN passwords is available for terminals running Windows, Mac, iOS, Android[4] or Linux operating systems, the remote desktop functionality is supported for Windows, Mac[3] and Linux operating systems with Linux support in beta.[5] It uses VP8 video to display the remote computer's desktop to the user.[6] Under Windows, it supports copy-paste and real-time audio feed as well, but lacks an option to disable sharing and transmission of the audio stream.[7]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Chrome Remote Desktop". Google Operating System (Unofficial Google Blog).
  2. ^ https://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/LICENSE
  3. ^ a b "Chrome Remote Desktop". Chrome Web Store.
  4. ^ http://mashable.com/2014/04/17/google-remote-desktop-android/
  5. ^ "Introducing Chrome Remote Desktop for Linux (Beta)!". 2014-07-07. Retrieved 2014-07-09.
  6. ^ "Next step in the Chrome OS journey". Official Google Blog.[unreliable source?]
  7. ^ "Controlling your computer from afar". Google Chrome Blog.
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