The other day OnLive announced a new application for the iPad, the OnLive Desktop, which is a cloud based app that will let you run a Windows 7 desktop on your Apple iPad.

OnLive has now released the app and it is available to download for the iPad from the US iTunes store, at the time of writing it only seems to be available in the US store at the moment.

The OnLive Desktop app will let you run a number of Windows applications on your iPad, like Word, Excel and Powerpoint, and all the applications are run from the cloud.

The service is free at the moment and you get 2GB of storage, OnLive will be launching a pro version in the future which will come with 50GB of storage and more applications they expect to charge around $9.99 a month for the service.

The OnLive Desktop app is available as a free download from iTunes.