{"id":4002,"date":"2010-08-09T11:42:23","date_gmt":"2010-08-09T09:42:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tokao.com\/?p=4002"},"modified":"2010-08-09T11:42:23","modified_gmt":"2010-08-09T09:42:23","slug":"jolicloud-1-0-the-free-iphonesque-os-for-netbooks-goes-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/2010\/08\/09\/jolicloud-1-0-the-free-iphonesque-os-for-netbooks-goes-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Jolicloud 1.0 \u201cthe (free) iPhonesque OS for netbooks\u201d goes live"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"It\u2019s been roughly a year since\u00a0Jolicloud<\/a>\u2018s\u00a0alpha release<\/a> and the company founded by\u00a0Netvibes<\/a> founder,\u00a0Tariq Krim<\/a>, has just launched\u00a0Jolicloud 1.0<\/a> to the public.<\/p>\n

The iPhonesque open source OS oriented towards netbooks has more than just an incredibly sexy interface, with an App Store-like selection of over 700 apps (going on 1,000 before the end of the year) \u2013 giving users access to everything from\u00a0Spotify <\/a>to\u00a0DropBox <\/a>in a simple click. Jolicloud has also blended in a bit of social, allowing users a practical way to discover the best applications out there according to what their friends download and rate. Does that mean that the days of the unused Windows desktop icons are over ? Even better, users with the \u201cAnywhere OS\u201d installed on multiple computers automatically have access to all their applications and from whatever machine they\u2019re on \u2013 definitely practical for when you are also transfering all your data entirely from one computer to another. Gotta love the cloud.<\/p>\n

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The Paris-based company is definitely aiming to make waves in cloud computing with its futuristic approach to operating systems, building its vision on the idea that tomorrow\u2019s desktop computer market will be a combination of high-end Macs or netbooks \u2013 with not much in between. For anyone without the dough for a Mac, well, they\u2019re probably going to shell-out no more than a few hundred bucks for a netbook.\u00a0Thus, Krim could ultimately be banking on anyone without a Mac. Oh, but Jolicloud actually runs on a Mac as well.<\/p>\n

Plus, that doesn\u2019t mean Jolicloud is necessarily aiming to wipe out Windows either. Users can actually install the OS alongside Windows and use Wine for Windows-only products on the virtual desktop.<\/p>\n

The start-up took $4.2 million<\/a> from London-based\u00a0Atomico Ventures<\/a> and\u00a0Mangrove Capital Partners<\/a> last summer and should be introducing their Freemium business model sometime soon. For now, everything is entirely free and given that the number of users supposedly increased by 50% within the first day of version 1.0\u2032s release, I figure I\u2019ll finish with one last thought (which also happens to be the company\u2019s tag-line): you don\u2019t need a better computer, you need a better operating system.<\/p>\n

(from techcrunch<\/a>)<\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s been roughly a year since\u00a0Jolicloud\u2018s\u00a0alpha release and the company founded by\u00a0Netvibes founder,\u00a0Tariq Krim, has just launched\u00a0Jolicloud 1.0 to the public. The iPhonesque open source OS oriented towards netbooks has more than just an incredibly sexy interface, with an App Store-like selection of over 700 apps (going on 1,000 before the end of the year) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[113,6],"class_list":["post-4002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-cloud","tag-techcrunch"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4002","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4002"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4002\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4002"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4002"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tokao.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4002"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}