Posted By: CplCarrot | Sep 25th @ 12:03 PM
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CplCarrot
CplCarrot
Dust Puppy

With all the talk of new OSes etc I came across this rendering of Windows in Silverlight. http://windows4all.com/ 

Just goes to show what can be done and I wonder if this is the way we all end up heading?

 

stevo_
stevo_
Human after all

Im not...

 

..and no this isn't the future, esp in this case because this relies on a chain of considerable more sophisticated software.. including windows itself.

PaoloM
PaoloM
Hypermediocrity

But imagine a very simple hardware that has Silverlight in ROM... Smiley

I like it a lot. I have being ichying for this kind of OS myself. MS probably has thought about it, but, it is a major move, so they are not going to put reasources on this right away.

 

W3bbo
W3bbo
The Master of Baiters

I'd write down a shopping-list of all the things that are wrong with both the premise of an in-browser desktop environment (IT'S NOT AN "OPERATING SYSTEM" DAMNIT!) and this particular implementation but I almost lost the will to live (and my sense of motivation) after toying with this thing.

 

magicalclick: can you seriously not see anything wrong with this?

Sure it relies on other software, but that software can all be in the "cloud". I can see PCs moving towards this dummy cloud terminal model in the future. Keeps costs down, removes any responsibility for backing up, removes any virus/malware risk.

Charles
Charles
Welcome Change

How does it run in Chrome? Smiley
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SlackmasterK
SlackmasterK
I write my OWN blogging engines

You run a website on MSDN and you don't test it regularly with all the popular browsers?  Shame.

 

I assume you don't, or you would have tried it rather than asking.

Bass
Bass
www.s​preadfirefox.c​om/5years/

Windows4all is kind of funny name when it doesn't work on Linux. Tried it with the latest version of Moonlight, but it just loaded and crashed. It does work on Windows XP with SL2 however.

 

There are similar "cloud OSes" out there. eyeOS is one example. It's written in HTML and has an office suite.

 

http://www.eyeos.info

 

Still pretty pointless IMO.

Dodo
Dodo
I'm your creativity creator™ :)

Not necessarily. I also do this a lot. I ask people a question, because the answer doesn't come to mind faster than asking. It however turns out that most of the time, I end up remembering or finding the answer myself, before the other party does. Asking a question, can provide a faster answer than personal research, even if conducted both at the same time, with incredibly low additional effort and may thus increase efficiency. But hey... I don't want to derail the thread.

 

I personally don't like the operating system in the cloud approach. It makes me paranoid.

exoteric
exoteric
I : Next<I>

It runs fine.

 

The idea sucks, but it runs fine Smiley

Charles
Charles
Welcome Change

I don't run Chrome (or Opera, or Firefox or Whatever). The dev team, on the other hand, run all major browsers on all major platforms...

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Charles
Charles
Welcome Change

It's somewhat silly, but still an interesting use of SL and you can run it outside of the browser as well. It looks like Windows, but obviously, it's not super functional. Still, a nice SL app in my opinion with some not-so-obvious potential....

 

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stevo_
stevo_
Human after all

Uh no it can't... unless you think we can afford network delay on every single system call made.. holy crap.

 

Totally NOT what cloud computing is about..

It looks good to me. I would love to have a cload desktop or cloud OS. Of course I need certain stuff stay on my PC, but, I would really like to run Paint .Net and Visual Studio everywhere I like. Sure, it is a giant loop from OS -> IE -> Silverlight -> Silverlight OS -> my stuff. But that's just an implementation issue, not a concept issue. The key is cload OS. We could implement it directly OS -> .Net -> Cloud OS -> my stuff. And cloud OS could be just a simple app storage where you store the .Net Images. Not sure how the security should be implemented, especially the machine could be infected and stealling info when you do works in cloud OS, but, tackle one dream at a time. 

 

I am totally for this. With increasing bandwith we are getting, it is time to going backward to the terminal era. Yeah, I am not kidding LOL. I do think it is more convinient to have my apps avalible everywhere regardless which computer I am on. Live Messenger is online, Office is online, SkyDrive is online, hotmail is online. Why not just make everything online so we can just build one app that works both on and off line? ofc it is important to have an offline copy just like Mesh in case internet is truly down (yeah not like internetisdown.com LOL).

Dunno. Runs just fine on a Mac with Safari.

 

Blimey ...  Expressionless

PerfectPhase
PerfectPhase
"This is not war, this is pest control!" - Dalek to Cyberman

Why not just use an RDP based approach? 

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