• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2012.05a
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• pp.674-677
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• 2012

An operating system acts as an intermediary between your computer hardware and computer users to perform, that the user can run the program provides an environment in which. Therefore, the main purpose of the operating system having a computer available for your convenience and to effectively manage computer hardware. The popularization of the people who use computers, improve hardware performance, advent of the internet, popularity of wireless networks, Smartphone and Tablet PC appearance, advent of virtualization technologies and cloud computing, etc. began making changes to the operating system. In particular, cloud computing environments based on server virtualization and using a variety of wired and wireless devices with internet connection, a Web-based operating system was born. In this paper, the definition of a Web-based operating system, types and characteristics, an analysis of the pros and cons, and find out about the future prospects.