![]() ![]() Immediately, there were concerns that this would tie the web to proprietary Microsoft technology that wouldn't be guaranteed to run across different systems. Using OLE, applications put on the web would contain their own processing logic, so would act similar to applications in a typical desktop environment. In response to the limited capabilities of HTML at the time, Microsoft began developing an online content authoring platform that would be based on distributed OLE (Object Linking and Embedding) which it codenamed Blackbird. Talk of an Internet OS began to surface in 1995 as the browser war started heating up between Microsoft and Netscape. The Internet OS has also been promoted as the perfect type of platform for software as a service. ![]() The advantages of such an OS would be that it would run on a thin client, allowing cheaper, more easily manageable computer systems it would require all applications to be designed on cross-platform, open standards and would not tie a user's applications, documents, and preferences to a single computer, but rather place them in the Internet cloud. ![]() An Internet operating system, or Internet OS, is any type of operating system designed to run all of its applications and services through an Internet client, generally a web browser. ![]()
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