Windows on the iPad

David Pogue on this radical iPad service called OnLive Desktop Plus

Plenty of apps give you stripped-down versions of Office on the iPad. But OnLive Desktop gives you the complete Windows Office suite. In Word, you can do fancy stuff like tracking changes and high-end typography. In PowerPoint, you can make slide shows that the iPad projects with all of the cross fades, zooms and animations intact.

Thanks to Microsoft’s own Touch Pack add-on, all of this works with touch-screen gestures. You can pinch and spread two fingers to zoom in and out of your Office documents. You can use Windows’ impressive handwriting recognition to enter text (although a Bluetooth keyboard works better). You can flick to scroll through a list.

OnLive Desktop is seamless and fairly amazing. And fast; on what other PC does Word open in one second?

OnLive Desktop Plus Puts Windows 7 on the iPad in Blazing Speed - NYTimes.com