Comments on: Microsoft Continues Its SaaS March http://enterprise2blog.com/2008/11/microsoft-continues-its-saas-march/ Enterprise 2.0 Blog Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:52:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Venkat http://enterprise2blog.com/2008/11/microsoft-continues-its-saas-march/comment-page-1/#comment-1838 Venkat Tue, 25 Nov 2008 21:18:42 +0000 http://enterprise2blog.com/2008/11/microsoft-continues-its-saas-march/#comment-1838 I am fast becoming a convert to hosted productivity suites, esp. Google Docs. Once you get over the initial minor quality problems when compared to thick desktop apps, and get used to the advantages (no worries about backing up data, access from any PC, clean desktop), you get addicted. Especially for spreadsheets, with the cool form feature. Of the major ones, presentation s/w has the farthest to go. With long-haul high-bandwidth on its way, this is the future. Esp. with Ajaxified mobile devices becoming better. My hoped-for vision: everything on the Web, something like Gears to provide some connection robustness with local hedging, version control like features sync'ing local and cloud copies of documents seamlessly, and collaboration via models like we already use for multi-person code version control (Subversion). I'd still like local archival backups in case of earthquakes at multiple datacenters or terrorists taking over the Internet, but that should be easy: sign up for a freeze-frame snapshot of all your dynamic documents as monthly mailings of all your documents on DVD. Security is the biggie. That's the one thing I am still not completely sure of, and I avoid storing truly sensitive documents (like a scan of a birth certificate say) online. Venkat I am fast becoming a convert to hosted productivity suites, esp. Google Docs. Once you get over the initial minor quality problems when compared to thick desktop apps, and get used to the advantages (no worries about backing up data, access from any PC, clean desktop), you get addicted. Especially for spreadsheets, with the cool form feature. Of the major ones, presentation s/w has the farthest to go.

With long-haul high-bandwidth on its way, this is the future. Esp. with Ajaxified mobile devices becoming better.

My hoped-for vision: everything on the Web, something like Gears to provide some connection robustness with local hedging, version control like features sync’ing local and cloud copies of documents seamlessly, and collaboration via models like we already use for multi-person code version control (Subversion).

I’d still like local archival backups in case of earthquakes at multiple datacenters or terrorists taking over the Internet, but that should be easy: sign up for a freeze-frame snapshot of all your dynamic documents as monthly mailings of all your documents on DVD.

Security is the biggie. That’s the one thing I am still not completely sure of, and I avoid storing truly sensitive documents (like a scan of a birth certificate say) online.

Venkat

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