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Author Topic: Launch any windows application on the cloud (online)  (Read 4436 times)

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Launch any windows application on the cloud (online)
« on: March 01, 2015, 01:01 PM »
Launch any windows application on the cloud (online)

I don't find an operating system on the cloud able to execute any windows application.

Do you know anyone ?

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Re: Launch any windows application on the cloud (online)
« Reply #1 on: March 02, 2015, 04:25 AM »
Architecturally, not possible, Windows apps are linked to the Windows OS.

Chromebooks are designed to get as close to that as possible, by encouraging you to open up apps that are cloud-based from the Chrome browser.  I think it is a good idea for some limited uses, also for  light research and writing on the run, since you can have decent keyboard and mouse and apps in a very inexpensive and light notebook (I paid $125 for mine used, but figure $250.)

They are beginning to kludge "Apps" from Android into the Chromebook (also a Linux dual-boot), but for the full Windows gamut of apps, you need a Windows Netbook or Laptop or Desktop.  Maybe a Windows tablet, you have to ask someone using one of those.

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Re: Launch any windows application on the cloud (online)
« Reply #2 on: March 02, 2015, 04:56 AM »
Thanks Steven.

The arquitectural impossibilitating feature is forever ? May in the future be solved ?

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Re: Launch any windows application on the cloud (online)
« Reply #3 on: March 02, 2015, 05:29 AM »
Running Wine emulator on android chrome etc in the future

Wine is the Windows emulator that runs on Linux.

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Re: Launch any windows application on the cloud (online)
« Reply #4 on: March 02, 2015, 06:50 AM »
As for online, that would be a Microsoft implementation.

Windows in the Cloud?
http://wctechblog.com/?p=3749

They would expand Office365 to include much more.  However, getting Windows in the cloud through a back door, outside
of Microsoft, is unlikely.  

As MilesAhead points out, there are possibilities to run Windows programs outside of the normal platform, on a desktop,
maybe a tablet.

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Re: Launch any windows application on the cloud (online)
« Reply #5 on: March 03, 2015, 10:16 AM »
Running Wine emulator on android chrome etc in the future

Wine is the Windows emulator that runs on Linux.

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Great news indeed !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Re: Launch any windows application on the cloud (online)
« Reply #6 on: March 03, 2015, 10:19 AM »
As for online, that would be a Microsoft implementation.

Windows in the Cloud?
http://wctechblog.com/?p=3749

They would expand Office365 to include much more.  However, getting Windows in the cloud through a back door, outside
of Microsoft, is unlikely. 

As MilesAhead points out, there are possibilities to run Windows programs outside of the normal platform, on a desktop,
maybe a tablet.

Steven
-Steven Avery (March 02, 2015, 06:50 AM)

Miles says in a tablet or in the cloud ?

I would like on the cloud...


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Re: Launch any windows application on the cloud (online)
« Reply #7 on: March 03, 2015, 02:02 PM »


Miles says in a tablet or in the cloud ?

I would like on the cloud...


-Contro

I just pointed to that blog.  The author knows more about it than I.  I have never used a chromebook or android or any of the mobile or cloud stuff.  I'm just now using OneDrive.  I am a troglodyte in some areas.  :)