Running an operating system in your web browser is easier than you might think, and there are a few options you can try right now.

What's the next step after web-based applications and thin clients? Web-based operating systems, apparently. An interesting idea known as YouOS is a project that strives to create a full computing ...

I'll be honest — when I first heard about an operating system that runs entirely on a browser, I didn't take it seriously. It sounded like a fun little experiment, not something you could actually use ...

Back in the days when people used to install software by inserting floppy disks into the slots on desktop computers, a few visionaries dreamt of being able to run software directly on the Internet and ...

We’ve seen a System 7 Mac emulator before, as an app, but a developer has now created a version which runs directly in a web browser … System 7 was the first classic Mac OS system to be later renamed ...

Google likes to say that Chrome OS is an operating system that lets you do everything on the web. Don’t believe it. Until now, I’ve been pretty optimistic about Google’s web-based operating system.

From the original Droid to the brand-new Atrix, Motorola’s been all about Android over the last year and a half. But if Thomas Claburn’s anonymous source is correct, that may eventually change. In a ...