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So, the good news is,Microsoft Web Apps goes live in June. Bad news? I’ll get to that in a minute…
Web Apps is the free version of Microsoft Office 2010 – a direct competitor to Google Docs. Free versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote will all be available once Office 2010 hits retail stores. Currently, [...]
In another brilliant step towards world domination, Google Apps is announced to have, basically, immediate disaster recovery. The short version is this: everything you do in Google Apps is replicated, in real time, to another data center. That means if the data center your files are normally stored in catches fire, everything you just did [...]
The discussions have started again about 4th amendment rights and cloud computing. I’m sure there are arguments on both sides, but it’s reasonable to assume your data will be legally protected even if you store it on a cloud-based server. That’s not the biggest issue though, as far as I’m concerned. The bigger threat is [...]
