XML Internet OS (XIOS) / icloud

What Xcerion wanted to do was to improve the layers of an OS that sits on top of the lowest core. The part of an OS where the most end user value is achieved. The traditional operating systems are today becoming more and more of a commodity. We wanted to contribute to that trend by also moving the programming APIs to the Internet cloud.

Xcerion envisioned zero-installation and choosed to use a browser as the UI rendering engine, however our OS consists of many of the parts that make up a traditional desktop OS, the parts improving on the user experience. We wanted to put our R&D resources on the parts of a OS that really matters the most to its users.

This includes multiple application instance handling, process handling, file system, version control, collaboration and programming APIs for easy and uniform application development. A traditional framework is mainly focused on making development of a single application easier.

XIOS's integrated IDE provides never-seen-before rapid development and deployment. However, Xcerion's XIOS platform offers more than just a web application development framework. It offers transaction management, scalability, offline capability, integrated application exchange, complete file system management, community support, and advanced user group and collaboration management.

Although traditional OSs don't provide the full range of this functionality, the commonalities are such that Xcerion decided to label its service as a XML Internet OS.