>But the cloud is really about getting your data away from your own networks Here's the thing I don't get: If that were the case, then the best solution would

>But the cloud is really about getting your data away from your own networks Here's the thing I don't get: If that were the case, then the best solution would be to write a native client that saves its data remotely over http. You get the best of both worlds. 1) Your data is centrally saved and managed 2) Your user interface isn't a crummy browser tab. But thats not what anyone's doing. The use-case for all these web-based editors seems to be to let people use apps without having to install anything on the desktop. The fact that the documents are saved on the server is just an added bonus.