On 1/29/07, Mark Rages wrote: > On 1/28/07, Xiaofan Chen wrote: > > On 1/28/07, Tony Smith wrote: > > > Besides, how long before we all run our apps off Google? > > > > I think it will never happen that we all run our apps off Google. > > Google is a search engine, that is it. > > Well, it's also a pretty good email client: http://mail.google.com > and a word processor and spreadsheet: http://docs.google.com > and a publicly accessible database: http://base.google.com/base > and a mapping application (google earth / google maps) > and a photo manipulation application (picasa) > and a chat software. > and an html editor: http://pages.google.com > True. But I only use Google Gmail. MS Office/Open Office are much better than any online word processor/spreadsheet. Picasa is from Google but you do not run Picasa off Google.com. And many people do not have fast internet access, even in a first world country like USA... -- http://www.piclist.com PIC/SX FAQ & list archive View/change your membership options at http://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/piclist