Several years ago, we looked at Cameyo which allowed you to create portable versions of just about any app. The company now offers an even cooler service: running Windows apps in a browser window.
Cameyo comes with a built-in library of many free or open source apps (presumably paid apps will be absent due to licenses). You can also upload your own package files and after a few minutes of processing, you can run the app in its own tab. There are obviously some limitations, since the apps run separately in a virtual environment and you can’t access your entire file system, but you can connect the apps to Dropbox to save your settings and files generated within the app itself.
Cameyo [via Into Windows]
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It looks like they throw you into a hyperv instance with a reasonable number of others (the VM I was on had 10 users). 4 cores at 3.7ghz, 16gb of ram, and server 2012 R2. Not bad for ‘free to play around with’.
Some general notes:
-Depending on load, you might be waiting a little while for a slot to open up. It feels like their limits are being pushed a bit right now.
-it’s pretty easy to break out into generic windows apps. Just run something like windirstat, browse to cmd.exe and launch it.
-Not all the apps are properly configured (chrome had some serious problems when I tried it)
-A quick speed test in firefox got a steady 350Mb/s, so network applications are looking good.
-While it might be tempting to load up a bitcoin miner and go to town, they’ll probably knock your session over long before you get anything useful out of it.