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Story: Microsoft prepares to take Office online

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Interesting...

I'd like to know where you're living, what ISP you're using etc as claiming the Internet is not mature enough for business yet would come as a surprise to a lot of companies out there I think. Companies such as the UK's Betfair, operate real-time, purely Internet-based businesses that are architected to avoid any down-time - tens of gambling-related transactions per second simply doesn't allow for down-time.

However I concede that the idea of using purely hosted applications might not be realistic for some companies in more remote areas of the UK where connections can be patchy. But that won't be an issue for too much longer.

There are also security and intellectual property issues to consider but these are mostly cultural problems and not concrete technology inhibitors to moving to so-called "cloud computing". And you have to ask yourself - is my data actually safer residing on one device - a device that could be hacked into, stolen or simply break-down - or hosted on the web - where the likes of Google has invested hundreds of millions of dollars to provide a stable platform.

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