The idea itself is interesting – I've seen other examples of web pages emulating desktops, and it seems great at the start (you create calculator, a basic word application), but then it turns out that you're not only custom developing an entire OS, but all the applications on it too. The Open Office and MS Office suites alone have had hundreds of thousands to millions of hours dedicated to their development, not to mention the requirements of custom applications for most users and workloads beyond the basic Word/email? How can you compete?

Mike

Mike

Use left menu Support -> Use WebDAV to mount icloud as a network drive in Windows for easier upload / download. You can use that for easy backup.

On the desktop, right click and choose iLauncher, you can now get a desktop icon for web access to services you use a lot, like for instance a web Citrix. They will open as an icloud window, without the browser controls.

Thanks Mike * 2 for good suggestions on improvements, please feel to email us whatever comes into your mind, beta { a-t } xcerion.com

Our end goal is to have built all the applications needed for everyday work (for a normal consumer), so we eventually can go over to run icloud on a stripped down Linux core with Firefox in fullscreen mode from start on more low spec PCs. We will continue to add more and more for every month to come

Also I'm concerned about the security of my data there – in turns of being intercepted by others. But apart from that – I'm going the whole hog – and moving to the iCloud desktop – and only using local apps where there is NO alternative.

Incidentally, there is no styles feature in the wordprocessor in iCloud. Ever tried writing a 700 page book without styles?