Google will merge ChromeOS and Android into a unified platform, according to Sameer Samat, President of Android Ecosystem at Google. “We’re going to be combining ChromeOS and Android into a single platform, and I am very interested in how people are using their laptops these days and what they’re getting done,” Samat said during a recent interview.
Yes and no.
MS did it to simplify their tech stack and maintained three separate full versions • Phone • Tablet+PC • Server Instead of • Phone • Tablet • PC • Server
There was speculation that they were moving towards a unified phone+tablet+PC OS
Instead it looks like we are getting • Tablet • Xbox Handheld • Xbox • PC As a single OS.
Whereas Google is doing it likely for shady reasons. Potentially to avoid a government mandated breakup by claiming that all of their devices run one OS.