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Project Description
Windows4all.com is a Silverlight based online virtual operating system (sometimes called a Web OS or a Webtop or a cloud computer). It is is a website that simulates an operating system inside your web browser.



Windows4all.com replicates the desktop environment of a modern operating system. It can give you a familiar work interface that looks the same whether you’re working at your home computer, or remotely from a borrowed or public computer. You can launch applications right away without installation.

Windows4all.com is web-based and requires Silverlight 3 to operate. Application runs in Silverlight’s security sandbox. By default code is restricted from accessing user's file system or doing anything that could hurt user's machine. Besides desktop, taskbar, start menu and sidebar, currently it includes such applications:

• File Explorer
• Internet Explorer
• Video Player
• Rich text editor
• RSS reader
• Virtual PC
• Notepad
• Paint
• Twitter client
• Flickr viewer
• Virtual Earth
• Chat
• Calculator
• Games like Chess, Solitaire, Spider etc.

The system also supports installing program functionality. But this program should be developed in Silverlight and be available in Internet or local file system.



Windows4all.com advantages:

• Convenience and freedom - A personalized desktop is available and accessible from any computer in the world.
• No more administration - No more software installation, software update, worry about anti-virus.
• Security - Less prone to typical attacks, viruses, worms, vulnerabilities, spyware and disk crashes.
• Hardware - Performance doesn't depend much on the speed of your computer.
• Entertainment - Being online, windows4all.com offers more opportunities for communicating and entertainment.
• Cost - It is free.

You can see live example at http://www.windows4all.com

Questions about the windows4all.com can be asked at http://forum.windows4all.com

Follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/windows4all