Comments on: Run Windows & Microsoft Office on the iPad for Free with OnLive Desktop

By: Chrissy

Chrissy — Tue, 25 Sep 2012 23:52:37 +0000

When I download this app, it asks for an existing acct and password, which I never set up. I’m new at all this…can someone help me? Thx!

By: kasi danai

kasi danai — Tue, 11 Sep 2012 19:39:46 +0000

not aviable also in netherland appel store

By: Hemal

Hemal — Tue, 22 May 2012 13:41:40 +0000

this is as amazing as it can gets. cant wait to go home and check this one out. I hope I can download this and get to work with it.

By: lee

lee — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 17:40:04 +0000

sounds like it would of been great, except I’m in UK and by the time, it may have come here, i have no doubt it would of been removed for some reason, but hey still somebody in the western world is using it and its appears to be working for them

By: tom swift

tom swift — Sat, 24 Mar 2012 19:05:35 +0000

Forgot to mention that I can watch Youtube, Hulu, streaming video on news sites, etc. So why does OnLIve say my video is not good enough? Who the frack knows…

By: APK

APK — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 21:29:23 +0000

Isn’t this basically VNC? Why not just use Screens for iOS and VNC to a Windows, Linux, or OS X box?

By: bigpics

bigpics — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 18:41:21 +0000

Not at the lawsuit level yet I think. They’re still “talking.”

MS isn’t against in principle (say they), but is getting no income from the free use of their most sacred cow other than all the Win variants themselves.

“War is the continuation of politics… …by other means.”
~Karl von Clausewitz ( Prussian general, 1780-1831)

PS: DO expect the main office apps being released in native iOS versions by Redmond within months btw (One Note’s already out).

They haven’t denied it, and need to keep their hands on the doc standards of the world as iOS finally brings Apple into the Enterprise in a big way.

By: tom swift

tom swift — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 16:25:53 +0000

Unfortunately having access to the internet only via a Verizon DSL connection here in the wilds of NJ, OnLive does not work for me. Kept getting dialogue boxes reporting my video connection is not good enough, so finlly deleted the app. Sigh…

By: snguyen

snguyen — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 07:05:39 +0000

Well, it works as intended. Office 2010 Word is impressively speedy at the start. One thing for sure I can now upload a couple PowerPoint presentations to the sky and quickly modify some slides right before beaming my work at the meetings. Since when you got a free lunch from the MS folks?

By: Graeme43

Graeme43 — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 04:23:36 +0000

Its not official? I can see it stop working soon then I thought it was great and it does work in UK

By: Alex

Alex — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 03:45:12 +0000

Works good but without the plus it’s useless!!!

By: anonymous

anonymous — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 02:01:38 +0000

Microsoft is suing this company over the app.

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 23 Mar 2012 01:29:03 +0000

Very Cool, but I stare at a windows box all day at work. I don’t wanna see MS on my nice new iPad….. ;-P
Free version is locked down tight, could not even use IE to browse. A lot of hesitation also. Keyboard kinda small.
Overall impressive, but back to my Mac!!

By: Carlos

Carlos — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 18:54:46 +0000

This runs very well, though I agree that it should be Windows 8 Metro for the best experience. It would even look better because the tiles are larger and would stream better. The only issue I see is the reliance on a high speed internet connection, but that is to be expected until VMWare or VirtualBox is brought to iOS.

By: Jared O'Brien >_

Jared O'Brien >_ — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 18:35:32 +0000

I am surprised this isn’t Microsofts offering, though they seem hellbent on rejecting the inevitable future.

BTW there are also a handful of Windows touch games available on the desktop and Adobe Acrobat Reader.