What's the next step after web-based applications and thin clients? Web-based operating systems, apparently. An interesting idea known as YouOS is a project that strives to create a full computing ...

Google likes to say that Chrome OS is an operating system that lets you do everything on the web. Don’t believe it. Until now, I’ve been pretty optimistic about Google’s web-based operating system.

The very pinnacle of Google’s vision of a Web-based world, however, must surely be Chrome OS, a new operating system built entirely around the Chrome browser. Laptops running Chrome OS, called ...