What's the next step after web-based applications and thin clients? Web-based operating systems, apparently. An interesting idea known as YouOS is a project that ...

Back in the days when people used to install software by inserting floppy disks into the slots on desktop computers, a few visionaries dreamt of being able to run software directly on the Internet and ...

From the original Droid to the brand-new Atrix, Motorola’s been all about Android over the last year and a half. But if Thomas Claburn’s anonymous source is correct, that may eventually change. In a ...

Google likes to say that Chrome OS is an operating system that lets you do everything on the web. Don’t believe it. Until now, I’ve been pretty optimistic about Google’s web-based operating system.

[Hugo Leisink] is a programmer who contributes to Open Source projects. In their spare time, they have been developing a web-browser-based operating system called Orb. It is available for the princely ...

I'll be honest — when I first heard about an operating system that runs entirely on a browser, I didn't take it seriously. It sounded like a fun little experiment, not something you could actually use ...