This is Microsoft, not Apple. You don't need their approval, you just buy the required licenses from them and you're good to go. And yes, they do license this form of usage. They always have.
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OnLive Intros Virtual Windows 7 Desktop With Office for iPad
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This is Microsoft, not Apple. You don't need their approval, you just buy the required licenses from them and you're good to go. And yes, they do license this form of usage. They always have.
I love being able to spell and proofread.
Dumbest comment of the thread so far.
Windows 7 is probably the second most popular Windows OS. XP was still top at 46.5% share of Windows desktops as of December.
No, it's a remote desktop session. Virtualization is what you do with Fusion.
This how their gaming service works, too. The power of your local machine is of little consequence because all you machine is doing is displaying images over an internet connection and relaying your keyboard/mouse actions to the real computer running the game in the data center.
This looks brilliant, for those of us who only occasionally need to use Windows. I hope it works with Internet Explorer too. (I'd gladly pay for an app like this that lets me test multiple versions of IE.)
Did you mean 'from PC to Mac'?
Did you mean 'from PC to Mac'?
I actually predicted this 6 months ago. It was a logical next step for OnLive. I think their company name was a giveaway. Their brand does not mention gaming at all.
Their USP is not gaming, it's their remote/streaming and backend technology which is superior to the competition.
This is great news for OnLive and will be very useful. I expect this to be the first of many services OnLive will produce.
Their USP is not gaming, it's their remote/streaming and backend technology which is superior to the competition.
This is great news for OnLive and will be very useful. I expect this to be the first of many services OnLive will produce.
But they are going have to have volume licenses for Windows 7 and Office 2010 which isn't going to be cheap. Host them on their servers, again not cheap and then offer users a FREE APP ? Just seems strange for any business to incur a lot of costs and then offer their wares for free ?
What makes you think OnLive is free ?
Microsoft offers Volume Licensing. That's probably how they do it, a site volume license for Windows 7, they just spawn a VM each time a customer subscribes to the service for a monthly fee. The mass of monthly fees just pays for the volume license (which is a fixed cost).
To quote the article
Does that say it ?
Admittedly you could also argue the app is free but will be subscription based, but the article makes no mention of it.
Well, their service certainly is subscription based for games.
From a PC World article, it's a bit more clear :
Basically, they have a fixed capacity at a given time for a free service as a gateway to trying to sell into a business subscription based service. They're eating the cost, using existing capacity (they already need to run these Windows licenses for their games business, so they probably have some over capacity on those) as a marketing opportunity to upsell into a paid service.
See that makes more sense now. I knew the article couldn't have painted the entire picture properly.
No worries. There's an 'Edit' button at the bottom of your posts, for fixing those kinds of mistakes.
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Complete cloud based phones are a while off. Any companies offer cheap unlimited 4g browsing with full world coverage? And think of the battery usage aswell
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Complete cloud based phones are a while off. Any companies offer cheap unlimited 4g browsing with full world coverage? And think of the battery usage aswell
Ive been doing something similar using the spashtop remote desktop app to connect to home and work machines. Works really well.
Splashtop does this already and works great. I couldn't live without it. I am a tech guy and I use it on all my kids laptops to support them as well as check in on what they are doing. My kids are 6, 8 and 11. I tell my 11 year old that I can see everything she does and did on the laptop and if she clears the history ever then she will loose the laptop. With so many predators online you really have to watch your kids. But you cant keep them in a cocoon either.
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Is this just a tech demo of something that's merely possible or a solution looking for a problem? Short of running the most popular Windows apps "natively" via server, what's the point? There's MS Office for Mac OS (granted, no MS Access in there & that's always been a killer missing tool for Mac acceptance in businesses).
Is this just a tech demo of something that's merely possible or a solution looking for a problem? Short of running the most popular Windows apps "natively" via server, what's the point? There's MS Office for Mac OS (granted, no MS Access in there & that's always been a killer missing tool for Mac acceptance in businesses).
and one of these days you'll realize Mac isn't capitalized as it doesn't stand for anything, unless you're referring to a Media Access Control address, which you aren't.
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thats exactly what it means. without a doubt or question about it. you won't be using their clusters w/o a subscription.
MSFT tablet now totally irrelevant...
Now you get two, yes two for the price of one! Why in the world would you buy MSFT OS running crap when you get the integration through the iPad, along with the Apple ecosystem! This is a no brainer. Problem is that their are a lot of Windows users that fit that description...
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For the sake of humanity lets hope not!
Now you get two, yes two for the price of one! Why in the world would you buy MSFT OS running crap when you get the integration through the iPad, along with the Apple ecosystem! This is a no brainer. Problem is that their are a lot of Windows users that fit that description...
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For the sake of humanity lets hope not!
Actually, that'd be the best way to get Flash on an iPad. You have another machine doing all the work. Depending on how efficient the OnLive client is, you'd only drain your battery about as much as streaming a movie over iTunes.
I love having a fully functional sarcasm detector.
Well, think about it - OnLive streamed Windows 8 on your iPad.
Unless you play games or whatnot, there might not be a need for a Windows 8 tablet - just tap the OnLive Desktop app icon!
Part from the obvious fact that you'd be in constant need of connectivity, sure.
Meaning it its not the end of the client...
the client isn't going anywhere but everywhere. ubiquity is the future, not mainframe computing. we've known that for over 3 decades now.