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Web Based Operating Systems

Posted on December 10th, 2008

If you have been reading the news or surfing any IT based websites, you may have heard of “cloud computing,” a new buzz word going around.  Cloud computing is a new style of providing IT or business applications and services via the Web or Internet “cloud.”  One very popular form of cloud computing is Google Apps.  With Google Apps, Google is able to provide many publishing applications, similar to Microsoft’s Desktop Suite (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), over the Web.  Users can log in via an Internet browser and access the applications that are actually running on servers hosted by Google.