Goodbye Desktop, Hello Cloud.

I was talking to one of my students and she said that she would switch to a Mac. But she didn’t want to have to buy all of her apps over again. I asked what apps she was talking about and she said, her office apps, Word, Excel and Powerpoint. My first thought was you could get Office for Mac and then I thought you can do all of that with online apps like Google Docs. Welcome to cloud computing.
We at MacMost do most of our word processing online using Google Docs, we can share and edit documents easily as well as print or save them as word docs of even PDFs. The same thing with spreadsheets with Google Spreadsheets and scheduling using Google Calenders and of course there’s Gmail.
The big advantages are we don’t have to buy multiple licenses of Microsoft software and we can share and edit our documents from any where we can access a Web Browser. The only real disadvantage is that you have to save very often in case you lose your internet connection, and not being able to access things when you can’t get an internet connection or when the local connection to the internet is down.
The whole idea is that soon you won’t need a ton of storage and a super fast processor on your computer, you’ll depend on the internet’s servers for that. You would be surprised how many apps you no longer need on your computer. You can do your taxes, edit video, edit photos get your news and a host of things that you used to do with a desktop app all within a Web browser. The only problem is going to be what to do with all that space and money you freed up by getting rid of your desktop applications.