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| by Stan Beer | |
| Monday, 09 June 2008 | |
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Page 3 of 4 Anyway I got my Microsoft supplied copy of Vista Ultimate
loaded, also loaded my Microsoft supplied copy of Office 2007 Ultimate
and for a few months everything seemed to go smoothly.Featured Whitepaper
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After a few months, however, I started to get frustrated. I had a computer that was almost a gamer's box but it was still making me wait for my emails to download and I was still occasionally pressing Ctrl-Alt-Delete to cancel a process that had stalled the system. I had heard about how cloud computing could free users from the constraints of the desktop so I decided to give it a try. Since Google seemed to have the most accessible free email, calendar and online word processing package available I opened a Gmail account. That also gave me access to Google Calendar and Google Docs. From the outset I have to say that not one of the Google online packages is as feature rich or as elegant as the MS Office counterpart. However, I decided to stick with them and give them a fair trial. So were they good enough? Please read on to page 4 |
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