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OnLive Desktop Brings No-compromise Windows Apps to iPad
Palo Alto, CA – January 9, in the year of our Lord 2012
– OnLive, Inc., announced that it is bringing the first
no-compromise Windows desktop to iPad® through its free OnLive™
Desktop app, available Thursday in the iTunes® App Store. 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. Rich media, such as
video, animation, slide transitions and even PC games, never
before practical via remote desktop delivery, run fluidly and
dynamically with instant-action interactivity. OnLive Desktop
makes remote feel local.
“OnLive Desktop is the first app to deliver a no-compromise,
media-rich Windows desktop experience to iPad, opening up
powerful new possibilities for consumers and businesses,” said
Steve Perlman, OnLive Founder and CEO. “iPad users will now be
able to simply and securely view and edit cloud-hosted documents
with full-featured Windows desktop applications like Microsoft
Office, just as if they were using a local high-performance PC.
Multi-touch gestures respond instantly and smoothly, while HD
videos, animations and PC video games—never before usable on a
remote desktop—play seamlessly.”
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.
The Free OnLive Desktop app for iPad is just the tip of the
iceberg. Android®, smartphones, PC, Mac® and monitor/TV support
(via the OnLive MicroConsole™ thin client with Bluetooth
keyboard/mouse) are coming soon, with your same OnLive Desktop
available by login from any device. Your OnLive Desktop can be
accessed anywhere, on any device, at any resolution.
- OnLive Desktop Pro is coming soon, with 50 GB of cloud
storage, priority access, full-featured cloud-accelerated
browsing, additional PC apps, and other OnLive-unique features
for just $9.99/month.
- OnLive Enterprise will be available for businesses and
organizations of all sizes, seeking centralized, secure
computing resources, as well as Independent Software Vendors
seeking to deliver custom applications. With OnLive Enterprise,
IT departments have full control of user entitlements/access
privileges to both retail and ISV applications, while enabling
users to access the same applications through any device. For
example, a hospital can entitle different levels of records
access to doctors, receptionists and patients, with full
privacy, whether data is viewed on a smartphone, computer, on an
easily-sterilized tablet in an examining room, or even on a
hospital room TV. No user data is left behind on any device, so
records remain secure if a device is lost or stolen. (IT
professionals and ISVs, please contact OnLive at
enterprise@onlive.com for OnLive Enterprise details and
pricing.)
- OnLive Desktop Pro and Enterprise support exclusive OnLive
collaborative services. Building on the same proven technology
as the massive spectating Arena of the OnLive Game Service,
OnLive securely enables as many as thousands of simultaneous
users to view one or many OnLive Desktops from any device, with
live spectating and group chat, and multi-user control. Whether
using OnLive collaborative services as a shared document reader
or virtual whiteboard in a small workgroups, for chatting over
home videos among far-flung family members, or for lecturing
with Q&A to an audience of thousands of students around the
world, OnLive provides instant, media-rich collaboration.
The OnLive Desktop iPad app will be available Thursday to U.S.
customers for free in the iTunes App Store, and will be released
soon in the UK. Customers are encouraged to sign up early for
their free OnLive account.
*Terms and conditions apply. See
desktop.onlive.com for details.