Reblog: Game Guru Slips Microsoft Windows Onto Apple iPads

Steve Perlman’s latest venture, OnLive, released a free iPad app designed to access a virtual Windows desktop running on a distant server, complete with software such as Word, Excel, and PowerPoint. And in typical Perlman fashion, it tackles the problem from an unexpected but completely sensible direction. Founded a year and half ago, OnLive is actually a gaming company. But rather than run games on your PC or your phone or your tablet, it streams them to your device over the net.