Desktop sized games aren't the only thing Palo Alto's opening streaming service is pushing to your tablet -- now OnLive is out to stream you an actual desktop, as well. next up on an old Windows 7 demo and later promises to build a "no-compromise, media-rich vigor experience," the outlet is now launching OnLive Desktop. It's almost exactly what it sounds like -- Windows, seamlessly streaming to your iPad.



Microsoft's OS rides the same bandwidth pipelines that host OnLive's gaming service, and offers tablet owners a streamed desktop with access to fully functional versions of Microsoft Office produce like Word, PowerPoint and Excel. The iPad app that is launching ascension day represents the outfit's "free" version of OnLive Desktop, and packs 2 GB of secure cloud storage in addition its limited suite of office applications. OnLive plans to expand the service with OnLive Desktop Pro, a paid variant (starting at $9.99 a month) with 50 GB of cloud storage, prerogative server access, else applications and "cloud-accelerated browsing." Need object more specific? OnLive courage will let firms custom tailor their cloud desktop to suit their needs -- dictating data, form and device access by user.



But how well does it work? It depends on your connection, of course. We dropped by OnLive's west coast base to stream it from the source. Read on to see how it did, or simply skip the bottom if you're looking for an standard




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