I’m not sure if you’re talking about the OS itself, or the OS running over the internet? I’ve used thin clients at a few places, the concept of remote OS has been around and functional for years. with vmware we use an ip’d monitor to serve up different OS’s in enviroments where we don’t want another workstation. The concept of using the internet is probably now viable due to the bandwidth of the common consumer and business. for os functionality and virtual desktops i’ve seen echo2 used… pretty cool web development code. I’m not sure where the true benefit of this is though? where do you use a kiosk or internet machine that you would want to remote into your OS? why not use ftp and/or ssh? neat concept, I just don’t see businesses justifying the need, definitely has the cool factor, even though it looks like that other crap os… thoughts?
defense dept. actually, just about anything where sensitive data could be lost, so CC/banking, medical. If nothing is stored on the computer itself, and the physical machine is lost, the machine is useless.