Things I'm waiting for

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re: Things I'm waiting for

j4m3s0n79 — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:49:54 GMT

I am actually very stoked about Albany.

The key for them will be to erase the line between cloud and local computing...in essence, bring the PC into the cloud. For those of us that have always connected machines (WHS or NAS for instance) I would like to be able to log-in to live services, open docs from my machine back home if it's not availble locally. Whatever they do, they need to stay away from some sort of crappy version of 'offline files' and apps with necessary synchronization.

re: Things I'm waiting for

hereskilled — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 20:54:03 GMT

Although I completely agree with the idea of the storage of data in the cloud, I still prefer to have an actual application to interact with that data. Take Window Live Mail for example, I hate having to revert back to the online version when I'm away from my home or work machine, where I have Windows Live Mail Desktop installed.

I'd rather have a fully featured desktop application that stores and intracts with information on the web, with a functional backup for the occasions where I'm at a public or locked down computer.

Surely I'm not the only one that has this preference?

re: Things I'm waiting for

fivepoint — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 18:20:23 GMT

Define useless...

Kind of an ignorant statement. For 90% of people that use excel, Google Docs probably has nearly every single feature they have ever used in Excel... as so is no only "useless" but even more useful than Excel because of its simplicity.

For the rest of the people your statement almost holds water... but again that is such a small percentage. You might as well say "Excel is bloated crapware designed for a tiny minority of customers!"

re: Things I'm waiting for

richied — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:13:52 GMT

Hello Paul,

I am a CTO of a Software Development Shop and Microsoft Gold Partner. All of our products are based on Microsoft Technology. For my folks though, Google Docs, especially spreadsheets, is a 'killer app'. They LOVE the real-time collaboration feature. It allows many users, in the same document, at the same exact time. It's really quite fantastic stuff. I've not seen or heard of that feature in any other system. Maybe I've missed something from Redmond, but Microsoft has missed the boat on this feature.

re: Things I'm waiting for

joewood1972 — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:02:18 GMT

Hi Paul,

Why do you use GoogleDocs? Is it cloud storage or real-time collaboration, price? I think I'm still missing the point there.

I see that Mesh isn't on your list. Are you on the beta?