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.

Multics, Unix, OS/360, Pick, George3, RSTSE, RT-11, RSX-11M, CP/M, MP/M, PC-DOS, Macintosh, OS/2, Windows, OS X, Linux, Beos. That’s a very short list of operating ...

Someday, in the not-too-distant-future, the Web will likely function more like an operating system than the current collection of disassociated sites. With a Web OS, Web applications will communicate ...

Back in the days when people used to install software by inserting floppy disks into the slots on desktop computers, a few visionaries dreamt of being able to run software directly on the Internet and ...