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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]
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MM said 5:23PM on 6-15-2007
Does not work. I'm getting a popup saying Sorry, not a registered user. Same thing even after I registered.
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Don said 3:40PM on 6-15-2007
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.
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Joe said 4:24PM on 6-15-2007
It is not an operating system ... it is an application design to mimic an operating system.
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Andrew Schrock said 6:14PM on 6-15-2007
Maybe it should be called a FOS - Faux Operating System?
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web said 8:51AM on 6-16-2007
It doesnt work w Opera
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James said 11:21AM on 6-16-2007
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.
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Clarion said 10:59PM on 6-16-2007
I registered with no problem, but then it doesn't seem to work properly, and it crashed Firefox.
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mikael bergkvist said 7:49AM on 6-19-2007
Try http://www.widgetplus.com instead.
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Colin said 7:45AM on 6-20-2007
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.
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David said 10:42AM on 6-23-2007
The site is no longer accesible.
.htaccess secured
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mikael bergkvist said 9:03AM on 6-23-2007
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. :-)
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hobay said 10:06PM on 8-29-2007
you give a user and password
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