From the category archives:

cloudware

First gmail, now Yahoo mail is down

September 3, 2009

good grief, it looks like it’s Yahoo Mail’s turn to go down in flames: I’m sure they will have service restored soon. But it’s particularly more galling given that 1. I snarkily defended Yahoo Mail during the gmail outage (oh, karma!) and 2. unlike gmail, I’m a paying customer for Yahoo’s Plus service (no ads, [...]

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Microsoft Bing: But It ‘s Not Google!

July 13, 2009

I’ve been increasingly using Microsoft’s new search engine, Bing in lieu of Google for my casual searches. One of the things that appeals to me is how the search results are so much more organized and comprehensive than just a list of ten text items. Google’s spartan deisgn was cool and chic ten years ago [...]

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the most important droplet

March 5, 2008

With all the talk of the cloud, it’s worth noting that for every user, the single most important droplet therein will always be their own PC. Cloudware is still far from feature-rich as software running on your own machine, and of course all the important user data still resides on the home node (and is [...]

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Microsoft Office Online?

March 4, 2008

A few days ago, Nicholas Carr reported a rumor that Microsoft was poised to take its Office Suite into the cloud, and was building out huge new server farms to prepare: I’ve heard that Microsoft has begun briefing its large enterprise clients on an expansive and detailed strategy for moving its software business into the [...]

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Foldershare

February 13, 2008

I’m starting a new category, called “cloudware” which is how i intend to refer to software that runs in the cloud. This will be my way of documenting what cloudware I actually use and fine useful. Fitting then that the first entry here is for Foldershare, a beta service from Microsoft that is stunningly simple [...]

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