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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.

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The term cloud OS is sometimes mistakenly used as a synonym for platform-as-a-service (PaaS).

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