Desktops in the Cloud

摘要

People Who use iPads can now get access to a virtual Microsoft Windows desktop, complete with Word, Excel, and PowerPoint applications, using OnLive's video-streaming technology (see "Cloud Streaming," TRIO, May/June 2011). Because this technology eliminates the buffering that normally occurs with video-streaming services, applications hosted on OnLive's servers can respond to user input as swiftly as if the applications were running locally on a mobile device.