Web operating system

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WASFIA INAYAT

SYEDA UROOSA REHMAN

SANA SIDDIQUE

RAKIA SUBZWARI
What is wos
•Web Operating System is an internet service through which a
user can access his computer data remotely anywhere on any
computer and in any part of earth were internet is available.
• It has been termed as “Web Operating System” because they
are present on the web and not on the computer of the user, all
the data is being stored on the servers of the Web OS provider.
Recently there was big roar on internet about the word “iCloud”.
It was an introduction of one more operating system in the
category of web operating systems. Web Operating systems
(webOS) was introduced as a thought that one might be able to
play with application, store data, and share it on the internet
from anywhere in the world. So does a web OS do. Today web
OS are capable of storing large amount of user data as large as
50 GB providing a very simplified and user friendly interface.
One can share files, listen to music, read news and can do many
other stuff depending upon the diversity and richness of the
web OS used by the user. In one line, “We have internet on
computer. So, web OS is computer on the internet”.
How Do Web OS Works?
Before going to servers and cloud computing details let us first start
locally. Consider the case of computers we have. The computer consists of
many applications to work with such as one can use calculator to calculate,
calendar to be scheduled, clock, games, and many other applications.
Apart from these apps we also have diverse data like movies, memories,
music, and files etc which we store in computer hard disk. We
communicate with the computer through the user interface which is right
now before your eyes (if you are viewing this page on a computer). If we
want to share any data, internet is engaged. Sharing can be done through
many websites available on the web. So this is how a local computer with a
normal user works. Now consider yourself as a computer user right now
working at office. Suddenly your boss calls you to show some random file
to him (sometimes they like people feeling inconvenient). But you forgot to
bring it. The file is in the hard disk of your home PC and it could not be
teleport from there to your office computer in air. This is the situation
when most brain thinks if there could be any method by which they could
access their local content anywhere. This problem was resolved by the
programmers by introducing the concept of “Web OS”.
 Webos server
webOS are the dynamic computers. The applications, hard disk,
operating systems are all present at the servers from where they are
operated. The web OS service provider has different spaces for
application access and database. The user is provided with a
graphical user interface which feels like the one at your PC. This
operating system consists of application section like calendar, clock,
calculator, document editors etc then there is a section for data
storage where user can store data, and there are many other sections
depending upon the web OS. Whatever content user wants to store is
stored at the hard disk at servers. As the terminology itself says, the
web OS make use of the web to connect and upload files to the client
server. As the files are now been stored at the server, user can now
utilize them remotely anywhere on the earth. It just needs internet
and a computer and everything is done. User has to switch on
computer, start the internet and go to respective web OS website or
download the web OS application (in case it is not on the remote
computer), and browse the data. Simple!
Abstract
1. One of the upcoming topics that have rapidly
gained popularity these days in the area of
operating system is a Web or Online
Operating System.
2. The implementation of this technology is
based on the Internet and distributed
computing.
3. The objective of this technology is to deliver
the full benefit of the World Wide Web.
1.Introductionan
operating system (OS) is a special kind of program that
organizes and controls computer hardware and software. It
acts as an interface between the user and the machine. They
interact directly with computer hardware and serve as a
platform for other applications.
A Web Operating System or an Online Operating System on the
other hand is a user interface that allows users to access a
desktop and applications installed on the Web. It maybe
considered being similar to the user interface of traditional
computer operating systems like Windows or Linux but it does
not directly interact with the computer’s hardware resources.
The user must still have a traditional OS on his or her
computer
Web operating systems are the product of a large
team effort. Some are free to download, and others charge a fee. Web
operating systems can come in all shapes
and sizes. For instance Cloudo, EyeOS and G.ho.st (Global Hosted
Operating SysTem) are the top three Web
based operating systems .
Some of the immediate advantages of using an Online OS are less
requirement of hardware as the physical
space for storing data at frontend will no longer be required
iCloud: Within a week
of its launch, there were
above 20 million users
across the globe. The
reason was the diverse
services provided by
them. Through iCloud,
user can manage the
content of their handheld
devices like iPhone and
iPad. User has the power
to virtually access all their
data from anywhere.
Apart from this user can
have 50 GB of storage
space. A typical screen
shot from iCloud interface
is shown...
 GlideOS:
Glide OS is a very
famous operating
system. It offers a
windows computer
like interface and
accessibility to
access it on
computers as well
as mobile phones.
It gives user 10 GB
of space to store
data. A screen
shot of glide OS is
shown...
 GHOST: G.HO.ST
stands for “Global Hosted
Operating System”, is a
very computer type web
operating system. At a first
look it completely
resembles to a windows
computer which makes it
fit to user of all types i.e.
from oldies to new bees.
G.HO.ST offers free space
of 15 GB for data storage
and a very professional
sharing mechanism. A
typical screen shot of
GHOST is shown ...
•Eye os
•Joli cloud
2.Services
1. Web operating systems can be considered as implementations of the
concept of cloud computing
2. They serve as interfaces to Distributed computing systems
particularly cloud computing systems.
✓ Distributed computing systems
commonly spread the workload over
several computers. Each computer’s
own
processor would then process its
own share of work independently.
Figure 1. Example of a typical
distributed computing system.

3.They have the plus point of being absolutely

mobile in nature
 ➢services components
Practically any program that could be run on a computer’s desktop can be made
available to the user on the Web operating systems. Some of the most common
applications include:
• E-mail.
• File management.
• Games.
• Instant messaging programs.
• Photo, video and audio editing.
• Spreadsheet programs.
• Word processing programs.
· store music · photos
· Application · Documents
· Bookmarks · Reminders
· Notes · Ebooks
· Contacts · Email client
· Calendar · Calculator
They are made available to the user as soon as they create an account with the
OS
➢Process
How to Start with Web OS?Getting started with the web OS is very
simple. It is as user friendly as to sign up with any social networking
website. Take a look
•Step 1 – Sign up: Go to the website of web OS provider and create
an account by signing up. This creates space for the user on the
server. There exist two cases, sometimes user need to download an
application of web OS before signing up and in other case, user can
directly sign up on the website of provider.
Step 2 –Get started: Next is the last step, user can now play with the
applications offered by the provider, save data on it and can do lots of
other things depending upon what web OS user’s using.
Step 3 –Have your data remotely anywhere: To recollect data from web
OS, user has to download the same web OS application on the computer
they are using (in case) or they can just log in to the website of provider
and have their data anytime anywhere on earth.

With some systems, people access the applications using Web

browsers like Firefox or Internet Explorer. With other systems, users
must download a program that creates a system-specific client. A
client is software that accesses information or services from other
software. In either case, users access programs that are stored not
on their own computers, but on the Web.
3.Underlying Technologies
The user side of Web OS software, whether run through a Web
browser or a system-specific client, runs on top
of the computer’s OS. While programming the software developers
must keep in mind the fact that this system
ultimately has to act like a desktop OS and so its look and feel must
be retained. Normally a Web OS might look
a lot like a traditional OS, but it does not manage the computer’s
hardware or software.
While the goal of a Web OS is to provide an experience similar to
using a desktop OS, there are no hard and
fast rules for how to make that happen. The two most popular
approaches employ Flash technologies or Asyn-
chronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) technologies.
Building an Online Operating System
➢Building an online operating system

The major concern for a web OS either online or application based, it

should have a.
1 light weighted
2 user interface in the sense it should take less space,
3 load quickly and provide a user friendly interface. These concerns have
been resolved by applications like Flash and XML scripts
•1) Flash is a very popular web development tool. The
fact that it is so popular is because it offers user to make interactive
applications using JavaScript and it also let user to make animations.
•2).Flash utilizes vector graphics to construct any application or
animation.
Because of these interactive capabilities of flash, it is being utilized in
making interface for the web OS.
Another approach for the making of web OS is through XML coding or
in more technical terms it is termed as AJAX which stands for
“Asynchronous JavaScript and XML” this is a very effective alternate for
the Flash. Actually, the AJAX is a pack of different languages used for
web development like HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language), JavaScript
coding, CSS (cascading style sheets) and eXtensible Markup language
HTML is not a coding language, it is a Markup language
where different tags are utilized for different needs. The browser than
read these tags and gives out the appropriate result .
To get communicate with the servers."" JavaScript"" is used which is a
language used for communicating with the servers. An application
installed on the computer connects to the server using JavaScript. Now
as we have successfully established the communication between
application and server there exist one more problem.......... i.e. nobody
knows that which file is related to which type of information i.e.
application file should be related to the application server and data
should relate itself with the data server, To solve this problem ""XML"" is
used
.4 Concerns Related to Security

A common concern about Online Operating Systems is that they

require a third party to be trusted by the user
for storing their personal and confidential data. On the contrary, the
developers are making their best efforts to
resolve this concern, as it is also a question of their repute and
prestige. Also, the use of distributed systems
makes the concept of an Online OS even more secure.
5. Advantages and Applications

This section covers the various advantages of using an Online OS

➢Advantage
1mobility
2software management
3high availability
➢Application
1) An organization may develop a new Web OS of its own and make it
functional on its local intranet, 2) This also reduces the cost of buying
the licensed versions of the various software for each employee group,
and also updating them regularly.
3 Web operating systems can also simplify collaborative projects. 4Many
Web operating systems allow users
to share files. 5Each user can work from the file saved to the system’s
native network. 6This is an attractive alter-
native to organizing multiple copies of the same file
Conclusion:
Earth is shrinking down with great pace if relating it with our
communication power, and as we all know that shrinking is inversely
proportional to the complexity, introduction of new virtual world
ideas like web OS let us to deal with complexities easily and make us
more social.