The Glide Cloud OS

Describing itself as 'The Complete Mobile Desktop Solution', Glide offers you a mobile desktop with data storage and applications. All from within your browser! Sounds impressive? I figured I should give it a go, took the plunge and signed-up.

Having tried a few a different operating systems in the last week or so in an attempt find an ideal mobile software platform, I was tempted to go a step further and install a mobile OS of a different kind. Glide is an operating system that actually stays within your browser, gives you ample free storage and allows you to access your desktop from anywhere in the world. To good to be true?  I intend to find out.

The forward thinking folk behind the Glide OS are Transmedia. They released version 3.0 of their Glide OS back in May of last year and currently offer a free service that includes 10GB of online storage, an email account, access to more than twenty online applications and your own customizable desktop that you can access from any computer in the world or even, if you prefer, your mobile phone.

Ok first off, I signed up for the account which is not too dissimilar to an email account really. User name, password, location, the usual stuff. You go to your original email inbox and activate your Glide account (makes you wonder how it would work if you had no other email account..Hmmmm...do they all require you to already have one nowadays? What about children and the elderly!!?).

My first encounter with Glide was slightly underwhelmed. Having lived in Gmail world these last few years I suppose you could say I'm used to certain level of graphical slickness. It's not that glide is ugly...just slightly kitsch. The page you see below is the pretty much the first one you clap eyes on. Looks like a desktop, no?

There's also the Glide HD. Not sure what HD stands for, but this area is kind of like windows explorer and gives more detailed access to your data. Folder are neatly set up for music, photos, video, encouraging the free user to back up his/her data and take advantage of the 10GB offered.

I intend to persevere with this new desktop cloud OS for the next day or two. Catch you later for some more in depth analysis.

If you fancy a dabble yourself, visit www.glidedigital.com and see just how easy it is to get involved.


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