Move Over Microsoft, Web-Based Operating Systems Have Arrived!

Ladies and gentlemen, I am proud to announce that we, as personal computer consumers, no longer must get ripped off by Microsoft or Apple. The future of personal computing has arrived, in the form of a fully functional web-based operating system.

Since the advent of personal computing in the 1980s, the major software companies have continually exploited our pocket books and forced consumers like you and I to pick between a very limited selection of operating systems, basically two. Some might call this business genius, monopolizing a market and reaping crap loads of profit out of the product you sell, but I call it exploitation. Did you know that when you purchase a computer, whether it be a PC or a Mac, hidden in the total cost lies a whopping $100 dollar fee for the operating system. Let's put this into other terms that might make you even angrier.

Microsoft develops its Windows operating system, generally releasing a new version every couple of years. They develop the OS and burn it onto a disc. They copy this disk a couple hundred million times to sell to people like you and I or they license the operating system out to companies like Dell, HP, Toshiba, etcetera. Do the math, hundreds of millions of copies of windows multiplied by $100. Now do you understand why Bill Gates is worth 60 billion? In my opinion, this is highway robbery.

Let me introduce Fanbox.com. Fanbox.com has innovatively designed a solution to solve this issue. Fanbox offers a fully integrated and functioning web-based operating system. Fanbox offers connection to your operating system through a sleek web-based client. The hilarious part - Fanbox has copied many attributes of the Windows system, all the way down to the desktop background and the blue "W" on its word processing application. In essence, Fanbox has done to Microsoft what Microsoft has been doing for years, ripping off the creations of other companies. While some might consider this the norm in the internet space, "embrace and extent," its much more satisfying to see it done to a Microsoft product once and for all.

The benefits of a web-based OS are limitless. You can use a wide variety of applications that you are already familiar with, including word processing, spread sheets, instant messenger (Yahoo, AIM, Google Chat, MSN), and more. If that's not enough for you, you can choose between thousands of third party developed programs for only a couple bucks each. Who makes most of the money from this sale? The third party developers who created them do. The best competitive advantage of this type of service is that its entirely free. Merely type in the url www.fanbox.com into your browser, enter your user name and password, and you are off and running.

Fanbox.com offers practical advantages in comparison to your current OS, which is restricted locally to your machine. With Fanbox.com, you can save all of your documents onto the web. This includes music, photos, documents, spread sheets; any type of file you would ever want to save. You can then access all of your personalized files from any computer worldwide that has internet access. There's no need to lug around your own computer anymore. Imagine how cool it would be to access your music or video libraries from anywhere in the entire world on demand. What's also enticing about this service is that you never have to worry about losing your important files when your hardware fails.

The only con to this type of service right now is that you must access the site somehow using an internet browser, which means your sitting in front of a Windows or Mac OS-based machine. This may seem to defeat the entire purpose of the product now, but the product will undoubtedly evolve and business partnerships will be made. Imagine Fanbox cuts a deal with a major computer manufacturer and you are able to boot directly to the Fanbox web address. With internet WIFI becoming a global norm in developed areas, the internet connectivity issue shouldn't be too much of a problem.