WebOS - the remote virtual desktop
Web 2.0 and the sudden rise in popularity of hosted services over the past few years have, in a away, given rise to a new definition of what an operating system is. Thanks to application frameworks, integrated development environments (IDEs) and tools such as Ajax, Ruby on Rails, Javascript and Flash, developers have come out with what they call the next big thing in hosted services. Web Operating Systems or WEBOSes for short, Some insist that these applications don’t fall under the traditional sense of what an operating system is, as they don’t act as an intermediary between the hardware and software layers in a computer, and that they should be dubbed Web Apps instead.
A WebOS, as defined by most, is a virtual desktop that resides, where else, on the Internet. In other words, imagine interacting with your computer desktop, shortcuts, documents and everything else you see when using your computer, but through your browser window.
