Originally Posted by Jim_Gunn

Cloud computing is total nonsense. I cannot fathom why someone would want to use an application over the internet instead of on their local hard drive. You give up speed, performance and security. Hard drive space is plentiful nowadays and we can all fit huge applications on our internal hard drives even on a laptop. Performance is always going to be much slower over the internet. I do have a few web based email accounts for game playing and casual use, but I need my email history and important documents to be stored on my own hard drive. I prefer the free Open Office suite over the MS Office suite for word processing and spreadsheets.