[PLUG] Rumors that Windows 7 will kill Linux...

Dan Young danielmyoung at gmail.com
Mon Mar 16 23:08:05 UTC 2009


On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 12:12 PM, Paul Heinlein <heinlein at madboa.com> wrote:
> As long as internetworking is not 99.5% accessible or reliable,
> locally run applications will have a large influence on OS choice.
> Google Docs and its successors will all face the internetworking
> bottleneck. Unless my bedroom, plane seat, remote conference room, and
> all places in between have reliable, fast internetworking connections,
> I'm going to rely on local applications, not cloud apps.

Google Mail, Calendar, and Documents support offline access via the
Gears plugin.

-- 
Dan Young



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