How about an operating system for the Web? How about the Web? The idea of a Web operating system has been bandied about for some time, and a few systems are appearing. The central idea of a Web ...

This issue of the Network World on Web Applications newsletter is a milestone: The 800th issue! That means our 900th issue will be Oct. 2 next year and the grand 1,000th issue is due Sept. 16, 2008.

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 ...

Operating systems are fairly complex pieces of software, and typically, they're the foundation of your computer experience. You don't usually expect to be able to run ...

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.