Wednesday, March 26, 2008

week 8: online apps

One of the advantages of GoogleDocs and Web-based applications in general is that they're stored on a server, so you don't have to worry about losing them if your drive crashes, etc.

Of course for that same reason, you may feel you have less control of your documents, because for all intents and purposes, your documents are not exactly (or completely) yours. This one I'm writing now, for example, belongs to GoogleDocs, not to me. If you read the fine print under Google's terms, they retain the rights to all of your account missives; so at least in that regard MS Office retains an edge.

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