Ajax13公司推出了基于AJAX的Web操作系统

【都说下一代操作系统应该由Google推出，但是现在已经有公司在行动了，翻译。】

Ajax13公司已经推出了一系列基于浏览器的WEB应用，包括ajaxWrite（相当于Office Word）、ajaxPresents（相当于Office PowrePoint）、ajaxSketch（绘图）、ajaxXLS（相当于Office Excel）和ajax音乐，今天正式推出了他们的Web操作系统——ajaxWindows。
ajaxWindows是一个通过浏览器访问的全面的web操作系统，通过Javascript技术实现。有一个完整的类似Windows的桌面、任务栏、开始菜单和桌面图标。和其他的流行的Web2.0网站的特性非常类似，同时允许每个用户自定义菜单和桌面图标。而且，ajaxWindows支持一系列的桌面套件和全部的Ajax13公司的应用程序在这个平台上运行。ajaxWindows可以被认为是其自由Web Office软件的集成平台（我之所以说是Web Office软件，是因为其开发的软件主要是办公类型的软件，当然，确实还包括一些其他类型的软件，如绘图软件和音乐软件等）。
由于ajaxWindows主要支持其自主开发的软件，以及其他的一些内嵌的套件，因此，ajaxWindows从使用上来说感觉不太连贯。其他的软件是通过新的浏览器窗口打开，而不是在ajaxWindows的桌面上打开的（虽然任务栏上可以包含这些应用，但是仍然不能在其桌面上打开）。尽管ajaxWindows鼓励开发者为其开发插件，但是并没有提供完整的API，开发与ajaxWindows无缝集成的Web应用（就是说，第三方的软件仍然需要从新的浏览器窗口打开）。基于以上的原因，目前的ajaxWindows更像是一个ajax13自己公司应用的集成平台而已，不具备更好的扩展性。
Ajax13希望他们自己的操作系统的存储策略更有利于其在市场上的竞争，ajaxWindows可以自动备份和同步用户PC上的数据到ajaxWindows的存储空间，其CEO Michael Robertson在产品发布会上说：“我们对ajaxWindows平台的存储以及备份策略非常有信心。”

下面是ajaxWindows的一个演示视频。

ajaxWindows Web OS Officially Launches

from Read/WriteWeb by Josh Catone

Ajax13, the makers of a web application suite that includes ajaxWrite, ajaxPresents, ajaxSketch, ajaxXLS, and ajaxTunes, today officially released their web operating system, ajaxWindows.

ajaxWindows is a full featured web OS deployed in a browser window using JavaScript. It has a familiar Windows like desktop feel, complete with a task bar, start menu, and desktop icons. It acts as a launcher for many popular web 2.0 sites and applications -- and lets you add menu or desktop icons for each. It also supports a range of desktop widgets and all of Ajax13's applications operate natively.

ajaxWindows can probably be looked at as a pretty launcher for its suite of apps, which ties their web office suite together (I say web office, because it includes mostly office-type apps, but they do offer a simple drawing program and a music player app -- both of which technically fall outside the definition of web office).

Because the only apps that ajaxWindows supports natively are the ones from developer Ajax13 and the handful of in-house widgets, using ajaxWindows can feel a bit disjointed. Other apps launch in a new browser window outside the OS (though a link to the open browser window is included on the taskbar). Though ajaxWindows is encouraging developers to create widgets for the web OS, there doesn't appear to be a full developer API that would allow app creators to make versions of their applications that could run natively on ajaxWindows (i.e., not in a separate browser window). For those reasons, it feels like ajaxWindows is really more of a sophisticated launcher for Ajax13's other apps than anything else.

Ajax13 is hoping that their storage strategy is what sets their Web OS apart from the competition. ajaxWindows users receive online storage space for automatically backing up and syncing documents and photos from their PCs. "We are tremendously excited about the breakthroughs we have been able to build into ajaxWindows that go well beyond the valuable back-up storage service," said Ajax13 CEO Michael Robertson in a press release.

Robertson is a serial entrepreneur, who was once the founder of MP3.com, and is currently the founder of Linux OS company Linspire, and the CEO of SIPphone.com, in addition to his role as CEO of Ajax13.

A video demo of ajaxWindows from Ajax13 is embedded below:

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