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OnLive Desktop brings no-compromise Windows app to iPad

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Want to run your favourite Windows app on iPad, if yes, then the wait is over. OnLive Inc announced that it will launch the no-compromise Windows desktop to iPad through its free OnLive Desktop app. This will be available from the iTunes App store starting this Thursday.

Onlive Desktop provides instant access to full-featured, media-rich Windows 7 applications, including Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint software, remotely hosted on powerful PC servers in the cloud. Based upon OnLive’s instant-action cloud gaming technology, OnLive Desktop delivers a seamless Windows desktop experience, with instant-response multi-touch gestures, together with a full on-screen Windows keyboard and handwriting recognition, enabling complete and convenient viewing and editing of even the most complex documents.

The free OnLive Desktop app comes with 2 GB of secure cloud storage and as-available access to a cloud-based Windows 7 desktop pre-populated with Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint, plus several utilities and touch games. Using instant-response touch gestures such as pinch and zoom, flick to scroll, drag, drop and Aero snap, users can quickly and easily navigate files, open, edit and save the ones they need, and store them securely in the cloud for access from any device through a simple Web interface. PC apps have full desktop functionality: Word documents can be created and edited with full redline and commenting capability, using a full Windows touch-screen keyboard, handwriting recognition or Bluetooth keyboard. PowerPoint presentations can be created with rich graphics, videos and animated slide transitions, and even presented directly from the iPad, either onscreen or via an external monitor. Data can be updated and analyzed instantly in Excel, translated into graphs and transferred into presentation documents. With OnLive Desktop, work is now possible anywhere you have an iPad and Internet connectivity, with the immediacy, functionality and responsiveness of a local PC.

In the near future, the company plans to offer this service on Android, smartphones, PC, Mac and monitor/TV (via the OnLive MicroConsole thin client with Bluetooth keyboard/mouse). The Pro version on the OnLive Desktop will be launched soon that will offer 50GB of cloud storage, priority access, full-featured cloud-accelerated browsing, additional PC apps, and other OnLive-unique features for just $9.99/month.

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