iCloud is OS in your web browser

The latest news in the world of the “cloud computing” is pretty interesting. iCloud is an operating system that actually runs within your web browser. And though it’s only in beta at the moment, the results look promising.
The beta is free and it works like this: iCloud runs an operating system within your web browser virtually. This means it’s light and quick to load and can be accessed from just about anywhere. Right now it only works in Internet Explorer; however, Firefox is in alpha at the moment, so you can try that out as well.
As far as first impressions go, iCloud looks a lot like a Windows operating system. To be specific, it looks like a mash-up of XP and Vista. The applications are limited as well, and consist primarily of a basic writing application and a mail application. There are some games too. So, at the moment, We can’t see iCloud doing anything that a regular OS can’t, but We are sure once this thing is running at full speed we might see some unique-to-cloud applications.

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GoogleOS will tackle Microsoft's Vista OS head on

We believe that everything will become much clearer in the following 6 months. Microsoft will put pressure on Google with its Vista OS, which will receive relatively high adoption just like any other new Windows release (although probably not as high as historically Microsoft has enjoyed!). As Vista's adoption increases, so will the adoption of its default search engine Live Search. From Microsoft's perspective, this will have a positive effect on all Live and MSN sites. What end users are looking for is ease-of-use and satisfactory experiences - which in a lot of cases starts from the Vista OS.

WolframAlpha

Wolfram|Alpha Is Coming!

March 5, 2009

Stephen Wolfram

Some might say that Mathematica and A New Kind of Science are ambitious projects.

But in recent years I’ve been hard at work on a still more ambitious project—calledWolfram|Alpha.

And I’m excited to say that in just two months it’s going to be going live:

Mathematica has been a great success in very broadly handling all kinds of formal technical systems and knowledge.

But what about everything else? What about all other systematic knowledge? All the methods and models, and data, that exists?

Fifty years ago, when computers were young, people assumed that they’d quickly be able to handle all these kinds of things.

And that one would be able to ask a computer any factual question, and have it compute the answer.

But it didn’t work out that way. Computers have been able to do many remarkable and unexpected things. But not that.

I’d always thought, though, that eventually it should be possible. And a few years ago, I realized that I was finally in a position to try to do it.

www.WolframAlpha.com