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Can you host demos of open source apps online, similar to how http://php.opensourcecms.com/ does for CMSs? For example, could you host a demo of Open Office for people to try out online? Maybe by connecting to a server that has Windows 7 installed or some Windows 7 simulator. How would you do that if you could?
It would certainly be possible, using something like a combination of remote desktop and virtual servers, however I haven’t seen any solution like that.
The main reason for that is of course that it would require a lot of hardware. While a web server can handle thousands of concurrent users, a server running virtual remote sessions would be able to handle something in the range of 10-20 concurrent users.
Being somewhere around 100 times more expensive than running web servers, one can easily see why there is little demand for such technology.