Browser – I like that as well. Why? I am assuming the folk running data centres will do a better job than me trying to organise my hard disk. And my HD or some other part of my local setup will go wrong – which is why much of internal IT is about maintenance. I’d much rather hand the job oover to experts whose only job is to keep things going on my behalf.

Outtages will always arise somewhere. But to date, and with one exception, they’ve not been criticial to what I do. But I’m only a ‘single user.’ In the enterprise space, I think there’s a lot to learn from the likes of GE which runs mega hubs 24x7x365 for some of the most transaction intensive companies on the planet. That’s the bit the industry has yet to address.

For people on the go accessing your stuff from any computer over the Net is an improvement – but not the perfect solution. The perfect solution is when I access my data through simple browser-like interfaces and can seemlessly work whether I am connected or not .