5 Sep
2006
5 Sep
'06
17:09
I think one factor to consider is that MS is at least considering, if not actively planning, to take the Office suite to the Web. The stand-alone application could eventually be abandoned.
Even in most of the West, web and wifi connections are just too slow and unreliable to make these practicable, imao. (And this coming from a guy who's connected via broadband, in a country with supposedly higher broadband adoption, percentage-wise, than the US.) Besides, who wants their vital data on somebody *else's* servers? Jeff Rollin -- Proud Linux user since 1998