Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/02/onlive_squeezes_windows_7_onto_android_tablets/
Windows 7 squeezed into Android tablets
Google out, MS in - virtually
Posted in Phones, 2nd March 2012 10:37 GMT
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OnLive may be better known for its cloud gaming service [1], but the advantage of running a heap of virtual Windows PCs on a server farm somewhere is that you can run Windows desktops on them as well as games.
Which means, if you have OnLive's new Android terminal app, you can run Windows 7 - and Windows 8 soon too [2], presumably - on your Google-powered fondleslab.
OnLive Desktop - available now from the Android Market [3] - provides "an instant-response Windows desktop loaded with full Microsoft Office apps and Adobe Reader", OnLive said.
The app is free and comes with 2GB of online storage. Cough up $5 (£3) a month and OnLive will throw in its accelerated browsing tech which, it claimed, is "the world’s fastest browsing experience, whether you’re connecting over Wi-Fi or 4G LTE". Hmmm… OnLive said "webmail attachments, even 50 MB ones, transfer in less than a second" and the system can "reduce Web browsing data usage by a factor of ten or more".
The OnLive Desktop app requires at least Android 2.3 Gingerbread and is compatible with the following tablets: the Acer Iconia Tab A500, the Asus Transformer Pad TF101, the Motorola Xoom, and the Samsung Galaxy Tab 8.9 and 10.1.
There's an iOS version of OnLive Desktop [4] too.
Sign up for the service it OnLive's Desktop website [5]. ®