Online Desktop

Previously I've written about 'office' environments available on the web, so you can work anywhere, but now developers are taking it one step further: a desktop environment in a web browser. franticindustries did a nice write-up about the ten different Web OS's currently vying for your attention. Of them all, I have used Glide, and it is pretty compelling. Using these tools, a user is able to get around one of the issues that some have with moving to a Linux environment, the inability to view email attachments sent from the Windows environment. Take a look at the article, and let me know what you think of an 'online desktop'.

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  1. Anonymous23:26

    The idea of having to deal with multiple O/Ss scares me. We love to hate Bill Gates and his army of coke sniffing executives (ever see the Steve Ballmer dance video?)

    But we still enjoy the standardization that B.G. has brought to us. Im sure im just being parnoid though. These O/Ss are O/S dependent too. Are these Web offshoots a total memory hog?

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  2. Stephen01:24

    The web O/S's are not dependent on a 'particular' O/S, and that's what makes them so compelling. As far as resources go, with Firefox, as you open up more tabs, you use more resources, and if each of them are more bandwidth intensive since there will be Flash and Java running, it will consume some more resources, but the coolest part is that if you have your 'desktop' set up just so, then anywhere, anytime, through any internet portal, you can use that desktop in a very convenient fashion.

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