YouOS Web Operating System : Liberating Software from Hardware

July 8th, 2006 | Filed under Microsoft, Tools.

YouOS is an experiment in a new kind of computing platform, actually it is a new online Web Operating System.

Wonder what is YouOS? From a simple web users point of view

“YouOS and its applications run entirely within a web browser, but have the look and feel of desktop applications. An application’s code and data reside remotely but are executed and modified locally. This model allows for a great deal of freedom. You can edit a document at home in a text editor and then go to school or work and instantly access the same text editor and document.

It’s a liberation. Software is no longer tied down to one computer.

In fact, you don’t really even need to own a computer; you just need to borrow one on occasion. Working out of internet cafes or libraries? Your desktop, applications, and data travel with you from cafe to cafe, session to session. And tedious things like data backups and archiving? We’ll take care of them for you.”

So now access your documents from anywhere. Instantly share music, documents and more with your buddies. Participate in the application community, whether you are a professional software engineers or highschool age programmer.

YouOS is built upon a set of open RESTful server APIs. The default YouOS client implementation (AJAX), the developer portal, the IDE - everything is built on simple, open xml accessible through the http protocol, which means anyone can write a client of their own.

Confused? Click the “Try the demo” link on the YouOS main page. Rest you can figure out…