OnLive Desktop brings Windows 7, Office apps to your iPad (TUAW)
If you haven't heard of OnLive before, get ready to hear a lot more about them
in 2012. The streaming company has been around for a few years, but is just
now making some major inroads into streaming all sorts of services to your
iPad.
We've already covered the OnLive offering for Mac, console and iPad gaming,
and it's pretty impressive (I saw a AAA console title streaming with almost no
lag using hotel WiFi) -- so I was anxious to see what OnLive Desktop had to
offer. Basically, it's like having a full computer experience on your iPad.
Specifically, OnLive Desktop will drop you straight into Windows 7, and from
there you can tap to launch the ubiquitous Office products. Similar to the
existing CloudOn or Desktone systems but supercharged with OnLive's streaming
tech, the intention is to give you a remote computing 'thin client' with the
full power of the desktop productivity apps.
We'll have more to say about OnLive when we meet up with them here at CES, but
you can check out a video of OnLive over at Engadget. For now, know that
OnLive will be offering this service in tiers, ...
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