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The cloud follow up, wet wear. Direct synaps access to data and the display fed directly to you optic nerves. Man I wish I could live long enough to see that.

hahaha... we all wish we could live longer and see the world change or evolve

The cloud follow up, wet wear. Direct synaps access to data and the display fed directly to you optic nerves. Man I wish I could live long enough to see that.

i believe there will be a time when networking speed will be fast enough that we will go back to the dumb-terminals
we live with it everyday but it isn't powerful and effective enough yet, thats when all we need is a screen while processing is all done on the server!

imagine have to watch a movie played from a server somewhere but only fed the display to your screen... and this will be a tablet like device but only as light as a piece of paper

cloud is still young, with time it will rule the world lol that is until some genius (or company but not apple lol) will come up with something much more awesome

I agree, there is a huge future in cloud based apps. However I'm not sure that I'm completely onboard with the whole idea. After all I'm and old school computer geek, and I like having my own copy of the software I'm using on storage media and everything I'm doing on my local computer. Having to access and run my productivity software from a web server somewhere kinda rubs me the wrong way. I know its the future, I know I'm going to eventually have to get used to it, but I see lots of security issues that will have to be addressed and are being addressed.

The good thing for something like this is the possibility of the apps being able to be used on a charge by use basis for people that don't need or can't afford to purchase it as a program for home use. It also will allow for use on tablets and such as they won't have to have huge data storage needs as they can use them as a web based app.

I think Microsoft is trying out new ideas and tech to see what people like and need. I also think that they are getting ready to push towards rolling out their internet based apps to replace their Office suite and Windows OS. I remember awhile back a rumor that Microsoft was getting ready to offer their Office suite as a internet app suite and this could be their first real push towards that, or a revisioned version of that same idea.

There is a huge potiental for success, and failure, for microsoft with this new service.

yip moving to the web and cloud seems logical, there's a green future on web and cloud - google's already got their own going (have been for few years now) with their google docs

I think Microsoft is trying out new ideas and tech to see what people like and need. I also think that they are getting ready to push towards rolling out their internet based apps to replace their Office suite and Windows OS. I remember awhile back a rumor that Microsoft was getting ready to offer their Office suite as a internet app suite and this could be their first real push towards that, or a revisioned version of that same idea.

There is a huge potiental for success, and failure, for microsoft with this new service.

outlook.com then what? is Microsoft really struggling with its online mail services? years back hotmail was the shizzy (and msn) and then live came along and now outlook, either they are struggling or they are just expanding their service for too many customers or spams?

i guess sooner or later these things will become the tradition (if it hasn't already)... technology, internet, facebook and social networks etc...

Indeed, many of us also criticize that the internet has taken over or made us forget the traditional ways of socialising, yet there are so many of us that can't even imagine that we won't be able to connect to Facebook, like the internet has become an important part of our lives, being a part of the community over the internet has attained almost equal importance.

Back in those days, yeah, but still today! How many mails or SMS do you receive every day? Mail is so naturally part of your daily life, that we don't realize any more how important it is. It's a strong way for being linked to the external world. I have seen people sending mails from their smartphones, simply asking "where are you?"/"I arrived, I'm just at the corner of the street, I can see your car". Simply imagine how you would feel if you spend a couple of weeks without mail access!

yip... email, sms, social networking... imagine if suddenly facebook pulls the plug? that wouldn't be so cool... quite a lot of people have included facebook and social networking as part of their daily lives just like email and all other messaging services