Cloud Operating System TransOS Coming Soon Say Researchers

The push The push toward a world of total cloud computing continues, as a group of Chinese researchers are developing a critical piece of software meant to be accessed and stored offsite: The operating system.


These days, even the most casual of computer users understands the importance of the operating system. Be it Google’s Chrome OS, Apple’s Mac OSX or Microsoft’s Windows, the OS is the piece of software which not only ties together the bits and pieces of the computer, but also provides a platform on which applications and programs can be run.
As time and technology have progressed, these operating systems, like many other aspects of computing, have gotten much smaller. However, now that many are looking to the cloud as a cheap and viable option for storing data offsite, it seems only inevitable that a truly cloud-based OS would one day allow users to keep all of their data in the cloud. Here is the complete story