"We have over a quarter-century of offline-ONLY desktop applications to draw on" I agree. You can't even span a table cell in Google Docs. Wordperfect 5.0 coul

"We have over a quarter-century of offline-ONLY desktop applications to draw on" I agree. You can't even span a table cell in Google Docs. Wordperfect 5.0 could do this over 20 years ago. This is not progress. So many "cloud" or browser-based apps have limited functionality compared to their desktop equivalents. The makers of these apps tout the simplicity of these apps as a selling point. But simplicity is not necessarily the absence of features (in fact, simply removing features could be argued as the lazy way of simplifying your app). What's more, online apps give companies unprecedented opportunities to track online behaviour. This is one reason why I would never use Google's ChromeOS. Even something as simple as printing to your desktop printer requires signing into Google's cloud printing service. It's clearly in the interests of Google (and other online app companies) to sell the idea of online apps and services as the way forward. I'm certainly not convinced that it is the way forward.