The next push to the cloud? Your operating system.

If you haven’t heard cloud computing is the latest craze sweeping the nation.  Everyone and their mother seems to be fascinated with moving everyday tasks such as office work (word, excel, etc) as well as file storage among other things online, freeing up space on your machine and ensuring you have a safe and secure backup that you can access any place you have an internet connection.  However a truly interesting concept that would truly break OS boundaries is an operating system that you could run inside of a web browser giving you true unwalled freedom?  *If only*  Well if that is something that has been the cause of many sleepless nights and countless drool soaked pillow cases iCloud will be your saving grace.  iCloud does what seems impossible – brings an entire OS to your web browser.

If this sounds like an answer to some of your greatest questions in life, I will start out by warning that as of right this second IE is the only supported browser…sad I know.  Firefox is in alpha however if you want to give that a go.  Trivial things aside, iCloud is a virtual operating system that is quick, fast, and efficient meaning you don’t have to mess around with pesky finger twirling and things of that nature waiting to mundane tasks such as opening a file, closing a file, (you get the picture).  Currently if you want to do things other than playing games, checking email on a “native” email client, or writing some documents, you might want to look elsewhere for you questions to life’s answers as that is all iCloud can do for the moment.  However I’m sure once development and adoption speed up, iCloud will become quite the talk of the town.  It is but a wee toddler now but if those involved don’t abandoned iCloud, we could see the start of something very big.

Source: Slash Gear, J K