Onlive Desktop Now Available For Android Tablets – Your Own Personal Windows 7 PC In The Cloud For Free
After seeing an iPad release a few days ago, Onlive has finally released their powerful Windows 7 Desktop app for Android tablets. So what exactly is Onlive Desktop? Well, it’s basically your own personal high-performance PC running on Windows 7 in the cloud, and accessible on your Android tablet. Just like the original Onlive app let you stream demanding PC games to your tablet using Onlive’s servers, this will let you stream Windows 7, giving you all the functionality of a PC, but in a more portable package. Well, I should say most of the functionality.
There are different levels of Onlive Desktop with the most basic — free service — giving you access to Microsoft’s Office suite like Word, Excel, Powerpoint and Reader with 2GB of online storage. The Plus version gives you full Internet Explorer web browsing (“up to over” 100Mbps speeds) as well as Dropbox access.
Features include:
- Instantly view, edit and create documents using actual Microsoft® Office Word, Excel and PowerPoint
- Easily transfer files between OnLive Desktop and other devices
- Experience high-performance, instant-response PC applications
- Interact with lag-free animation and video
- Works with most Bluetooth keyboards and mice (left-click only)
Once again, this service is completely free and you can signup at Online.com/desktop and the Market link for the app provided below. I’d just like to say that Onlive totally stole this idea that I’ve had floating around in my head for years now. Glad to see someone jump on this, now we just have to wait for the Windows 8 version to really stick it to Microsoft.
Thanks, @M1tchs!