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There are always alternative office suites. I for one will be keeping an eye on how far this cloud thing goes. For instance if they start charging a regular fee instead of your one time purchase then I wont be using it any more.
There are always alternative office suites. I for one will be keeping an eye on how far this cloud thing goes. For instance if they start charging a regular fee instead of your one time purchase then I wont be using it any more.
Ironically I heard the same thing about on-line banking and shopping
As times change and technology marches on, so will these attitudes, and then will see the same thing that we see in on-line banking and shopping today.... that is everybody does it, and no one worries about.
The thing that scares me is how Google seems to plugged into/providing a lot of information gathering tools. Do we really want one corporation to have that much info on us? And who controls it?
Just something to think about :)
These days you can get consumer 1 TB drives for as little as 85 USD / 60 GBP / EUR so why on earth would people be hassled into using expensive online archive systems when these devices are IDEAL for archiving and backing up data.
Just also consider the HUGE bandwidth increase that was doing nothing productive but just backing up data.
Also all these scenarios ignore the fact that you have to be connected to the Internet the whole time as well with all the security and other attendant risks that entails.
Believe it our not some people are quite happy to use computers for long periods without having to logon to the internet.
Finally Online Banking and Internet shopping as I have posted previously are TRANSACTIONAL types of tasks -- people don't have that problem with this type of activity -- like using an ATM or an automated Train ticket machine.
But doing Productive work like editing large documents, preparing presentations, composing Music, Video , etc etc are totally different types of work and can't easily be done on the cloud with any sort of efficiency at all.
Even with Youtube I think any decent quality video is developed locally before being uploaded unless you deliberately WANT people to see hideous rehearsals.
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jimbo
Maybe in 2020 ....
For now ...office still a good software for building data base ...which most businesses rely on ..
Again, my point was there were hordes of people saying they would never use those types of on-line services because of privacy/security concerns and in the end those concerns diminished. The same will happen with cloud computing.
BTW I too wouldn't want a lot of my documents in a cloud computing system either, but the rapid progress of computing technology will change these attitudes.
That's my point.
That's a pretty vast assumption. For instance, I have no facebook, picasa, twitter, or photobucket accounts, hence no pictures of my family or friends are shared in that manner. My documents are stored on my hard drive, wouldn't let them get out ANYWHERE. My Financial data is stored by paypal in which they are two prepaid cards almost always carrying NO balance. My Music is stored locally. Why get on the RIAA's ass and make it public? I also have an off-site data redundancy backup of these files and information.
Never in the world would I trust a SINGLE company on the web to handle my information.
Also, I run an email server, web server and others, just so that my information isn't inspected by robots like google.
Not every company has a 45.5M monthly payroll and some of these smaller companies have in-house Exchange solutions.
If a version of office goes "only online" then fine, but you cannot expect the smaller companies to take up that expense of these archives.
OWA has taken some great strides to become an "Outlook look-a-like" but as far as I know, you cannot use the Sharepoint features in OWA. I don't doubt this is planned, but it's not going to happen until Exchange 17 at my BEST guess. Still don't see companies with in-house solutions branch out for the cloud to use a copy of Office. ESPECIALLY, when they have a sales force that flies half the year and needs to get work done on the plane.
While some are not enamored with being "in the cloud"...for small environments who do from time to time, experience problems with their in-house servers (exchange, SQL, et)....it often takes a lot of time and effort to get fixed and back online.
Compared to an internet outage, which is often pretty quick and doesn't require you to lift a finger to fix, it's not the most awful thing in the world. This could be pretty appealing for many small companies.
If the cloud were as fast and easy to access as my local hard drive, I wouldn't mind. As it isn't, I do.
I'm 100% with you. There are too many hackers-in-training, not to mention all out hackers looking to practice or steal. I might sound paranoid, but some hackers got into a company with whom I had done business, got my credit card, and had themselves a ball. I eventually, wasting a lot of time, was totally reimbursed, but why store anything in the cloud. If they can get through truecrypt more power to them.