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Story: Microsoft prepares to take Office online

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Why The Rush

I do not understand the rush to online services.

Firstly, there are security and legal problems.

Secondly, the current capacity of the internet structure to deal with the increasing demands made on it has to be seriously questioned.

I have two broadband connections, one cable delivering 4 Meg, one ADSL delivering 8 Meg. These speeds can be achieved, sometimes. At other times I regularly have a miserable service on both embracing very slow speeds or no speed at all, arbitrary dropouts with no connection at all and, strangely, connection to my ISP without any further connection beyond to email or to the internet.

This is hardly a basis for services on which people and must depend without reservation.

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