abstract:Web operating system and webOS are metacomputing terms that refer to network services for Internet scale distributed computing, as in the WebOS Project at UC Berkeley, and the WOS Project. In both cases, the scale of the "web operating system" extends across the Internet, like the web.
It uses Google's Android mobile operating system and is meant to work easily with Google's Web-based services.
VOA: special.2010.01.26
Google is basing the new product on its Chrome Web browser and the Linux open-source operating system.
VOA: special.2009.07.17
On the backend, GoInstant essentially views the web page on its server and adjusts it so that it looks the same for everyone who is viewing that page, no matter what web browser or operatingsystem they are using.
Its enemies fret about the fact that Windows 98 fully integrates Microsoft's Internet Explorer Web browser with the operatingsystem for the first time.