iCloud virtual desktop public-beta launched
Swedish startup Xcerion on Tuesday launched the public beta-test of iCloud, a virtual desktop aimed at consumers and mobile workers, which it hopes to develop into an application marketplace comparable to Apple's App Store.For end users, iCloud offers a web-based desktop available from any internet-connected PC and offering a set of productivity, developer, media and communications applications.
Microsoft and Google are the best-known providers of web-accessible applications, with projects such as Google Apps. Unlike their efforts, iCloud attempts to recreate the look and feel of a full-fledged operating system running in a browser, including a desktop, application icons, widgets and applications running simultaneously in separate windows.
iCloud applications are written in Ajax, like Google Apps, but iCloud applications run entirely in a 2MB virtual machine loaded into the user's browser.
The virtual machine offers an abstraction layer which is designed to insulate the applications from the underlying browser technology, simplify development and improve performance, Xcerion chief executive Daniel Arthursson told ZDNet UK on Thursday.
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