Monday, July 2, 2007
Online Productivity Tools
Online productivity tools are an interesting brand of Web-based tools. No need to worry about upgrades or corrupted files. Easy access as long as long as you have an Internet connection, though I have yet to see how much control you really have when formatting your document. I'm used to working offline when working on word processing documents. Printing off of the Web, after all, can be quite different from printing off of a word processing program. Of course if your Internet connection goes down, you have no way of accessing that document. These tools share some wiki characteristics, but add a lot more features.
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It's fascinating to see how public opinion (and as well as my own perspective) sways when it comes to online productivity tools.
I remember when server-pushed software was the Next Big Thing in the mid 90s. People who work on mainframes (remember DRA and those amber NEC workstations?) are comfortable with storing all their documents on a network. However, people who had just purchased personal computers and took their first tentative steps on the Internet preferred to have their documents stored on personal, physically removable media (floppy disks in those days). They shook their heads and rolled their eyes when companies said that storing documents online was the sensible thing to do. Don't most sensible people keep their money at a bank instead of at home?
Now, it seems like the pendulum has swung the other away. People and corporations prefer server-based storage because of the convenience of accessing documents from anywhere in the world as long as there's an internet connection.
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