Can Web apps ever replace desktop software?

[Kristijntje]

Applications, Maybe. What About Personal Privacy?  With services like GMail that are too anxious to give us free access to e-mail storage, the offering for file storage is still fairly laughable. And that’s not even considering the sheer bandwidth that is needed to make huge file transfers. Then there is the matter of privacy. Some of you may point out that the data stored on your hard drive is not of any real consequence, but I would disagree. It is more than probable that a skilled, disgruntled employee of the company you trust with your data could run away with key data you entrust to sell off your personal information.

Even if ABC Corp. is offering to store up to 25GB of your data for you at no cost, just remember that very little is really "free" in life...

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