Cloud Computing: Windows Hits the iPad

An outfit called OnLive has put a virus-free Windows 7, not 8, 7, plus the whole Office suite, Adobe Reader and a one gigabit-a-second Internet connection with the data sized to fit, on the iPad. It works virtually through a remote computer farm sort of like GoToMyPC writ large. Microsoft’s helping since its Touch Pack add-on makes Windows iPad-friendly, or at least stylus-friendly. The service, which, by the by, can run Flash content (think Hulu), runs five bucks a month. There’s also a cut-down free version with two gigs of storage and someday a $10-a-month service that puts any Windows program you license on the iPad.

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