OSWeekly: Web OSes: Will They Ever Catch On?

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"Sweet Like Candy, But with Twice the Calories. The biggest problem with online OSes is also their biggest attraction - it's exclusively available online. Outside of needing to access your data on the go from remote, public computers, I simply fail to see the advantage or reasoning behind putting a lot of stock into this concept. Cool to use. But to me, it just seems more logical to offer the applications themselves much like Linspire and Google have been doing over the past couple of years."

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