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AjaxWindows: yet another webOS
AjaxWindows is certainly one of the more polished web operating systems out there. You get the distinct impression that you're using an actual operating system and not just a series of web-based services from within your browser. It includes a couple of applications like a PowerPoint style presentation viewer/creator, a word processor, music player, and drawing program. Oddly, there's no spreadsheet application.
There's also integration with a variety of web services such as Gmail, Flickr, and Meebo. For example, when you click on the instant messaging application, web-based multi-chat client Meebo opens up. In other words, there's little you can do with ajaxWindows that you couldn't have just done from Firefox.
AjaxWindows does provide you with 1GB of online storage, so the idea is that you can synchronize data from your desktop and access it with a familiar interface wherever you go. But it's only familiar if you use it at home, and that just seems a bit silly.
[via TechCrunch]
Comments
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Subscribe to commentsMMJun 15th 2007 5:23PM
Does not work. I'm getting a popup saying Sorry, not a registered user. Same thing even after I registered.
DonJun 15th 2007 3:40PM
Same here - even though I've never been there, I get "already a registered email address" when I try to register, or I get "Error-Not a registered user" when I attempt the test drive. Dumb.
JoeJun 15th 2007 4:24PM
It is not an operating system ... it is an application design to mimic an operating system.
Andrew SchrockJun 15th 2007 6:14PM
Maybe it should be called a FOS - Faux Operating System?
webJun 16th 2007 8:51AM
It doesnt work w Opera
JamesJun 16th 2007 11:21AM
How much are they going to get sued for when MS realizes they jacked almost all the UI elements from WinXP? Seriously, most of the buttons and icons are either screencaps of a WinXP button, or a very, very similar "homage".
Neat idea, I guess, but I don't see when it would be useful.
ClarionJun 16th 2007 10:59PM
I registered with no problem, but then it doesn't seem to work properly, and it crashed Firefox.
mikael bergkvistJun 19th 2007 7:49AM
Try http://www.widgetplus.com instead.
ColinJun 20th 2007 7:45AM
Wow. I was working up a big diatribe regarding web OS, but http://widgetplus.com/ summed it up for me in complete suckitude: The desktop OS will continue to exist so long as crap like Widget+ seeps from the woodwork.
DavidJun 23rd 2007 10:42AM
The site is no longer accesible.
.htaccess secured
mikael bergkvistJun 23rd 2007 9:03AM
Whats the problem with widgetplus?
I think it's working pretty ok for oline file management, it's not supposed to be an online webos.
It runs in most browsers and it's pretty fast. :-)
hobayAug 29th 2007 10:06PM
you give a user and password