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Pramati Technologies WaveMaker. Cloud OS is a marketing term used to describe a lightweight operating system (OS) intended for netbooks or tablet PCs that access Web-based applications and stored data from remote servers. Top Development Terms to Know.
up vote 2 down vote. A desktop operating system is an OS designed to run on a desktop computer. It has drivers, optimizations and interfaces (APIs and user interfaces) for desktop use. An embedded operating system is the same thing but intended for an embedded device. It might possible to load an application created on a desktop OS on an embedded OS, depending on the application, the OS, the hardware, the development tools used and possibly other factors.