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There's one thing I can promise you about the space program. Your tax dollars will go further. - Wernher Von Braun
Symantec flies off into the cloud
VIRUS KILLING GIANT SYMANTEC has taken on the likes of Google Docs with the release of its cloud-based suite of productivity applications Go Everywhere.
Featuring the usual rip-offs of Word, Excel and Powerpoint GoEverywhere is free to use but the system seems to have a bit of a backlog of applicants at the moment and even the Inq couldn't get in to have a proper snoop around (don't they know who we are?)
Once set up you can navigate through a windows-esque landscape which allows access to all areas of your cloud-dwelling computer using one password for everything.
The site has several videos of how the system works, so that you can be really sure that this is what you want before you commit yourself and your data.
Symantec reckons that this is the next best thing in personal computing, as you can access whatever you want from wherever you are.
No excuses for not bringing your homework in, then. μ
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so you fall for the pretty advert featuring another UP to gazillion megs internet connection and you sign up only to be told that you will have to wait 2 weeks for connection. So u have no net access and the boss is bitching that your Working from home excuse ain't holding water. What do you tell him? Sorry boss all my shit's up in the cloud and I'm stuck with no ISP for 2 weeks. He'd tell you to take a running jump. or better still some hacker kid alters your mighty spreadsheet that you spent 5 weeks fukin around with. "wasn't me boss who put that lap dance on the company expense" Clouds - pie in the sky
If they do to the internet what their "suite" does to your PC, we might as well go back to smoke signals now.
I worry about the quality of their cloud applications if they can't even release an introduction video which does not include the presenter stumbling over his words on 3 different occasions. Did they not have time to make the recording again, or edit out the stumbles? Were the application developers also under the same pressure not to spend time correcting their mistakes before releasing the code?
At least when Windoze kills my PC I can use Knoppix to get my data back. How do we recover our data from the cloud?
Steve.