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Word Processing: Most of You Still Use Desktop Software
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- blogimus 18y agoDo you trust your or your organization's private or proprietary information to Google, or some other online office software? Can you imagine the formula to Coke stored in a Google doc? I really, really, really like the idea of web based office software. I want to use Google office. I use Google notebook for mundane stuff and love it. Aside from speed issues, which will get better, there's the issue of private or proprietary information getting lost, stolen, or otherwise undesirably released from your or your organization's sphere of control. Until I have confidence that my data is stored redundantly and well encrypted at all levels outside of my control, I will be using either desktop software or web-based software within my own intranet or the walled garden of the organizations I work for/with. More than bandwidth, reliability and usability, I see trust as the biggest issue we face for business/enterprise adoption of online web office services.
- gaius 18y agoThere's a lot to be said for your work not living on your local desktop, but Sun have already said it with Sun Ray and no-one was listening - and that was fully under the organization's control.
- blogimus 18y agoI agree. Having your work outside your desktop can be a great boon, but look at the synchronization industry that has been active and entrenched for years. Just one case in point: Lotus Notes. Aside from data security, established synchronization solutions are something else that online web office software is competing against.
- wmf 18y agoI wouldn't say no one was listening; VDI is almost an industry now.