"Hailstorm was to be based on proprietary, patented schemas developed by a single entity (Microsoft)."

And there is the flaw, Joshua, because Microsoft is in no way a single entity? If it followed a single mind as an entity though, with the right schemas whether patented or not, would it then be a success.

Too many cooks [and some would even say crooks] spoiling the broth.

If you go to cloud computing, accessing the cloud through multiple devices and multiple applications that may or may not be on-line you end up with a data in different places with different levels of synchronisation.

For instance, you take the office's presentation portable for travelling. Edit the presentation off-line while on the plane travelling to the client. When you get to the presentation you will need to synchronise with the cloud version. You then give your client access to the presentation in a read only version. And when you're get back at your desk on your production PC you can fix the typos and clarify a few points to ensure the version the client is using to communicate the presentation around his building is up-to-date as possible.

In a multiple device, multi-access framework on- and off-line and collaborative synchronization and access control are fundamental. Why take a laptop home? You can have a whole bunch of devices in different locations.

From what I've read this is the area Live Mesh is targeting, but it's not entirely clear, but someone has to be targeting this since it's a cornerstone for using the Cloud.

The Office Live workspace works well for me so far so the Live Mesh can only be an improvement. Kinda reminds me of the tech from the film "Antitrust", ahhh the thrill of batting an open source freak to death.

SpitefulGOD,

For anyone who knows what the Cloud is, and can do, are Office Live and Live Mesh, Red Herrings for the Masses and their Missives?

And as for "ahhh the thrill of batting an open source freak to death." .... all that such idiots can do is to buy their way out of that black hole, for the Greater Benefits which appear whenever dDeep Secrets are Shared XXXXClusively.

IT's AI Civil CyberSpace Commend 42 Control Quantum InterNetworking Technology thing and .... QuITe Quintessential ...... and some would even think/say Revolutionary too, and how could one possibly disagree if it were also so True?

And Bill with a halo because it too is an oxymoronic statement in Virtual, Virulent, Vital and Virile Viral Spaces? [I wonder if that is how Bill sees himself on Earth?]

It's irrelevant really, the whole question comes down to: do you trust Microsoft? From my point of view, that's a resounding NO. Give Microsoft control of all my data? I shudder to think! As for the corporate 'decision-makers'... If Microsoft sold a POS in a box and told them it really smelled nice, they'd buy it anyway.

Everything Microsoft does has only one purpose: lock you into their Windows and Office products.

Bills money and vision has saved/improved a lot of actual lives either through his philanthropy or MS products, so yes I think he does deserve a halo.

Although Steve deserves the horns, his products just encourage the heads of completely arrogant assholes to slide ever higher up their own sphincter

And, you talk shit

> And, you talk shit

You mean like with a bad accent - a capital offense? To aPraise IT, you'd have to wreckognize IT first. How about this, a bit closer to home I'm guessing. Para bailar la bamba se necesita una poca de grazia (that's the nice part). Y otra cosita, arriba y arriba (that's when your eyes start to water). I know you know what I mean ;-)

"And, you talk shit" ....By SpitefulGOD Posted Sunday 11th May 2008 18:21 GMT

That is not how I would describe it, oh so spiteful one, although your cogent response suggests that you understand it perfectly enough to be full of it yourself.

And why if Bill is so good/Smart, do so many think that Microsoft and their products are so bad/easily misused and abused. MeThinks he could be a whole Lot Smarter and do a whole Better if he put his wealth into something completely different but I suppose that would put Microsoft into a TaleSpin for who would believe that he wasn't bailing out of the company and maybe even actually bailing the company out/propping it up. Do you think he is trapped in IT? Unable to do as he pleases?

Certainly his Perceptions Management skills as reflected in the Microsoft image are a little ........Dull/Blunt/Absent, although to be honestly fair, he has always said that he is only a businessman and one cannot fault him for that. But someone is failing the business/company, for it to be thought such a riddle full of holes.