xOS Webtop is an open source webtop OS (Web Desktop

Web desktop

A web desktop or webtop is a desktop environment embedded in a web browser or similar client application. A webtop integrates web applications, web services, client–server applications, application servers, and applications on the local client into a desktop environment using the desktop metaphor...

) making the cloud computing experience easy for everyone and available almost anywhere. It is mainly written in HTML5, PHP, and JavaScript. xOS includes a Desktop or Mobile environment with a number of features, applications, and system utilities being added all the time. It is accessible on Windows, Mac

Macintosh

The Macintosh , or Mac, is a series of several lines of personal computers designed, developed, and marketed by Apple Inc. The first Macintosh was introduced by Apple's then-chairman Steve Jobs on January 24, 1984; it was the first commercially successful personal computer to feature a mouse and a...

, Linux

Linux

Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...

, iOS (Apple), and Android (operating system) through the web browser.

History

The first version of xOS Webtop started development in December 2010. The first version became available on May 14, 2011 after 6 months of development. Although it took XProduct this long to develop the program it didn't work as planned so they posted their version of xOS 2.0 Desktop Edition online for use and quickly went back into development on xOS Webtop 3.0 (xOS 3.0 Development started before the release of xOS 2.0 as a beta

Beta

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testing version). Then XProduct decided to start from the ground up on the newest version, and not too long after they started working directly on xOS 3.0 after xOS 2.0 was released.

Development

Development is steady and worked on almost daily. Bugs are fixed and fixes are uploaded as soon as possible. Everything is tested and secure. And if it doesn't work XProduct does not post it, as they did with xOS 2.0 Desktop Edition. A mobile phone and tablet version are expected this fall. A developer page is available on their website for all those interested in development.