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Is it Time For the “Web OS”?

  • Wednesday, June 17, 2009

With mobile devices and cloud services on the rise, keeping all of our data in sync and accessable anytime, anywhere is becoming more important.

We're all spending more time working from different locations on multiple devices (desktop, laptop and smartphone), and keeping all of our data in sync and accessable anytime, anywhere is becoming more important. Going beyond limited-use services like Google Docs, Salesforce, Zoho and MobileMe, a few startups are offering "web OSes" that try to replicate the desktop experience in a browser. But do we really need the full desktop experience wherever we go?

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