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Just a few short weeks ago, we introduced our free OnLive™ Desktop app, delivering an instant-response Windows desktop and full-featured Microsoft Office apps to your iPad. Now, with OnLive Desktop Plus, we’re excited to transform the iPad even further—into the world’s fastest mobile Flash player.

Available today at desktop.onlive.com, the OnLive Desktop Plus service delivers priority access to all the standard features of OnLive Desktop, plus gigabit-speed* accelerated browsing with full Adobe Flash. That’s not simply a fast browser, it’s faster than any consumer browsing experience we know of.

For you that means—whether you’re on Wi-Fi or 4G (Android LTE tablets coming soon!)—you can expect even the most elaborate Flash websites to load in seconds, even if it would have taken your home computer minutes to load the same page. Animation, video and sound come through impeccably and instantly. And, large cloud storage files and Web email attachments—even 50 MB PowerPoint presentations—to upload or download in less than a second.

All of this—gigabit-speed accelerated browsing, plus Flash, plus access to fully functional PC apps like Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and now Adobe Reader, plus your cloud desktop, plus 2 GB of cloud storage—is available for just $4.99 per month.

What’s really cool is OnLive gigabit-speed browsing doesn’t come out of your local data usage; you might actually save money. OnLive Desktop Plus can dramatically reduce Web browsing data usage by as much as a factor of 10 or more, since only the top layer of the current view of a website is sent over your local Internet connection**. So you get the world’s fastest mobile browser, at quite possibly the world’s best value.

If you don’t have an iPad or you’re not in the U.S., don’t worry—we’ll be bringing OnLive Desktop to more platforms and territories soon. Android, smartphone, PC, Mac and even monitors and TVs (via OnLive MicroConsole thin client) are all on the way.

In the meantime, check out OnLive Desktop Plus at desktop.onlive.com.

—Steve Perlman, Founder and CEO

*See desktop.onlive.com/plans for details and terms and conditions.
**OnLive Desktop’s local data usage is based largely on screen motion, not the amount of data transferred from a web site.

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