For users already familiar with Windows 7 and its predecessor, Windows4all will look similar to both, albeit more to Windows Vista. However, the project is unlike the latest iterations of the Windows client, as it’s not anchored on the desktop, but rather available in the Cloud. An interesting experiment, Windows4all.com is designed to offer an online virtual operating system built by leveraging Microsoft’s alternative to Adobe Flash, namely Silverlight. The Windows4all.com website is set up to offer a simulation of the Windows platform inside users’ web browser. Despite the branding and the design similarities of the graphical user interface, Windows4all has nothing to do with Microsoft. The Web-based OS is an independent project hosted on CodePlex and offered under the GNU General Public License version 2 (GPLv2) open source license. Because it is open source, users interested in the project can grab the source code of Windows4all.
“Windows4all.com replicates the desktop environment of a modern operating system. It can give you a familiar work interface that looks the same whether you’re working at your home computer, or remotely from a borrowed or public computer. You can launch applications right away without installation,” an excerpt out of the project’s descri... (read more)
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