[Nottingham] Oh to float on a Cloud! (Scary?!)

[Jim Moore]

Martin wrote:
> Folks,
>
> Have you seen where Microsoft Windows has gone now?!
>
> Good OS Announces Cloud Operating System
> http://telecommunicationnews.net/2008/12/good-os-announces-cloud-operating-system/
>
> (Note where the Windows icon is...)
>
>
> And there's also Netbooks, and Android (PDAs/phones), and...
>
> So... What happens when Linux jumps up in market share?...
>
> Cheers,
> Martin
>
>   
not knowing much about the OS in question, or how it boots, does anyone 
know if it launches xp in a vm process? Or is it a coldboot through grub 
or whatever?

Only asking cos I've managed to get xp launching in a few seconds by 
invoking a vm session from a snapshot image rather than an installed 
boot image, which keeps my downtime to the barest minimum while I do my 
win32 stuff in a practically native environment. Only way I'll run win32 
apps these days, is in a sandbox.

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