What is Glide?

Summary

Glide OS 4.0 is a comprehensive Ad-Free cloud computing solution. Escape from the daily barrage of online floating, pop up, banner and streaming ads and email spam. In addition to providing you with an ad-free alternative, you get more storage, more features and more control over how you share your private information and personal files.

Glide is a free suite of rights-based productivity and collaboration applications with 30GBs of storage. Setup and administer up to six family member accounts including child accounts from your Glide settings panel. Users who want additional storage or would like to add additional users can upgrade to Glide Premium now with 250 GBs for $50.00 a year or 20 cents per GB per year. With a Glide Premium account you can setup and administer up to 25 users. The Glide OS provides automatic file and application compatibility across devices and operating systems. With Glide OS you also get the Glide Sync App which helps you to synchronize your home and work files.

You can even use Glide on virtually any mobile phone with a browser. To access Glide on your mobile go to http://glidemobile.com.

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Press

"Glide is a well designed and ambitious service."

- The Wall Street Journal/CNBC

"The whole package is wonderfully elegant."

- PC Magazine

"Glide's core idea is unassailably fresh and useful."

- The New York Times

"Glide OS 4.0 is a breath of fresh air in world largely controlled by Microsoft Windows."

- Clint Boulton, eWeek

"Chrome OS forces users to store and work with data exclusively in the cloud. That may very well be too autocratic a model for many people. Glide OS allows you to work with both local and cloud applications, and store data either locally or online."

- Sebastian Rupley, GigaOM

"Glide provides stunning cross platform compatibility and equally impressive granular rights."

- CNET

"Glide, overall offers a great package with security that dwarfs offerings from Microsoft and other competitors."

- InformationWeek

"Google should be looking over its shoulder."

- eWeek

"Glide provides the closest thing to a set of universal applications."

- BusinessWeek

"Glide OS 3.0 is a universal computing platform that works."

- Bloomberg

"This is the kind of remarkable technology that can weave itself into everyday use."

- Laptop Magazine

"Glide is the Microsoft Office of Web apps. Microsoft could not do Glide today."

- CNET

"Glide Write handles Microsoft Word Documents with aplomb. It's very similar to Word; it looks and performs in a remarkably similar manner. I'm even more impressed with Glide Mobile. You can browse and open files-including songs, photos, documents - even videos - with remarkable speed."

- PC Magazine

"Glide Presenter 2.0 has overtaken Google's presentation software as our favorite web-based alternative to Microsoft's PowerPoint. Glide Presenter has covered all the bases with a compelling Web-based offering that could emerge as a true replacement for Microsoft PowerPoint."

- PC World

"The photo editor is both remarkably full-featured and fast."

- BusinessWeek

"Glide (versus Google Apps, Zoho Business, Thinkfree Premium) comes the closest to fulfilling the vision of a tool that can help people organize their entire digital lives."

- Econtent Magazine

"Both children and adults can take advantage of Glide's new drawing and coloring tool. It works a bit like Microsoft Paint except with Glide's collaborative tools built in, and a much more interesting interface."

- CNET

"Glide Write is a sophisticated multimedia-savvy word processor that exports Word, HTML, PDF, etc. I suspect the Microsoft Office team is following these developments with great interest."

- DR. DOBBS