Cloud can be described as an "instant on browser based application environment".

Interested parties are invited to provide technical, application environment and pricing information for technologies in the following categories:

This leads to a scalable application environment that can support a large number of clients.

Users can interact with applications from many locations, instead of being tied to a specific workstation for their application environment.

Another, called Webtop, is an integrated application environment for enterprise use.

Smart client is a term describing an application environment which:

Steve covered the three application environments on top of the Darwin/Quartz foundation.

Symphony also includes its own Mozilla-driven application environment, called Orchestra.

The session layer is commonly implemented explicitly in application environments that use remote procedure calls.

The idea of a consistent application environment across heterogeneous environments was compelling to both enterprise customers and software developers.