Introducing Carbyn the HTML5 based multi-platform OS Needs only a browser

Carbyn is the product of a Canadian startup company going by the same name, which debuted its new HTML 5.0-based OS at Tech Crunch Disrupt event this year.

The platform is designed to run on any modern browser, assuming it has HTML 5.0 support so thats pretty much everything bar some of the older builds of IE. It works by simply logging onto the Carbyn website and everything there, ready and up to date. You can pin apps to the homescreen like many conventional OS and as there is an SDK already available, developers can make apps from the ground up or for the platform or get existing apps working on it within half an hours, say the Carbyn team.

The obvious comparison here is to the Chrome Web Store with its HTML 5.0 focused apps. The store is just a catalog of apps though, whereas Carbyn does not only runs multiple apps in individual browser windows, but it can apparently manage multitasking more efficiently as the apps can talk to each other, apparently something traditional web apps cannot.